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Eastern Interconnection
Practical Law Glossary Item 1-539-6608 (Approx. 2 pages)
Glossary
Eastern Interconnection
One of the five alternating current power grids or interconnections that make up the electric grid in North America. The Eastern Interconnection reaches from Central Canada eastward to the Atlantic coast (excluding Québec), south to Florida and west to the foot of the Rockies (excluding most of Texas). The other interconnections in this system are the Western Interconnection, the Texas Interconnection, the Alaska Interconnection and the Quebec Interconnection.
The Eastern Interconnection is overseen by regional councils of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, including:
- The Florida Reliability Coordinating Council, which ensures and enhances the reliability and adequacy of bulk electricity supply in Florida.
- The Midwest Reliability Organization, which, among other things, assesses compliance with reliability standards and bulk power system reliability in North and South Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Nebraska.
- The Northeast Power Coordinating Council, which is responsible for promoting and improving the reliability of the bulk power system in New York and the New England states, the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Québec and the Maritime provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.