Alaska Administrative Code
Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska
Chapter 46 - Electric Reliability Organizations and Integrated Resource Planning
Article 1 - Certification and Practice of Electric Reliability Organizations
3 AAC 46.050 - Electric reliability organization certificates

(a) In a certificate issued to an electric reliability organization, the commission will describe the nature and extent of the authority granted to the organization under AS 42.05.760 - 42.05.790 for an interconnected electric energy transmission network.

(b) The certificate of an electric reliability organization expires after six years. Not less than two years before the date of expiration, the electric reliability organization must notify the commission if it declines to seek certificate renewal. Absent that notice, the electric reliability organization's certificate automatically renews, and the organization shall retain it unless the commission finds, after notice and an opportunity to be heard, that the electric reliability organization no longer meets the requirements of this section for the form of board under which it received its certificate.

(c) If the commission receives competing applications from entities seeking certification as the electric reliability organization for an interconnected bulk-electric system, the commission will issue the certificate to the entity that is able both to best fulfill the duties associated with AS 42.05.762 and to most fairly consider stakeholder class interests.

(d) During the period between one certificate's expiration and the issuance of a subsequent certificate, the commission will consider the most recently approved tariffed reliability standards to continue to satisfy the requirements of AS 42.05.291(c).

(e) Upon complaint or upon its own motion the commission, after notice and opportunity for hearing and for good cause shown, may amend, modify, suspend, or revoke a certificate issued to an electric reliability organization, in whole or in part. Good cause for amendment, modification, suspension, or revocation of a certificate includes

(f) The commission will grant a certificate only if the commission determines that an applicant has demonstrated the ability to perform the duties of an electric reliability organization. To demonstrate that ability, the applicant must

(g) The commission may waive or modify by order the requirements of this section, in whole or in part, upon application and a showing of good cause or on the commission's own motion, if the waiver does not also require a waiver of the requirements set out in AS 42.05.760 - 42,05.790.