Texas Reliability Entity

Texas re lessens the burdens of government in several ways. Texas re's delegation agreement with nerc provides that nerc delegates to Texas re certain of the responsibilities delegated by ferc to nerc (as the certified electric Reliability organization) under section 215 of the federal power act. These activities include monitoring and enforcement of compliance with mandatory electric Reliability standards and facilitating the development of new or modified federal electric Reliability standards. The monitoring, enforcement, and implementation or modification of standards is designed to help prevent or reduce outages, blackouts, security threats, and cyber attacks on the electric grid that could otherwise cause serious risk to human health, safety, and the economy.