Title: Ensuring Electric Utility Reliability
Category: Regulation
Area of Effect: Energy
The World Assembly,
Noting that multiple entities take responsibility for the generation, delivery and sale of electricity to consumers and essential industries globally, regulatory policy plays an instrumental role in ensuring the reliability of these entities’ services, and that such policies vary between nations, being nonexistent in some,
Concerned by the potential of electric disruptions in one nation to spread internationally and hinder global economic development,
Alarmed at the fact that there currently exists no WA organization involved in the regulation of electricity, for reasons previously mentioned, and
Wishing to rectify this precarious situation,
Defines, for the purposes of this resolution, an electric utility as an entity which engages in the generation, delivery to the premises of, electricity to end consumers (i.e. those which utilize the electricity, without its resale) as a public service (i.e. with the intent of supplying electricity to all within their service area),
Establishes the World Assembly Electricity Commission (WAEC), and tasks it with the following:
- 1. establishing mandatory procedures through which electric service is preserved and restored to the greatest possible extent during and following a disruption in service, including the designation of entities to be prioritized in that regard (hospitals, governmental agencies, food storage and processing facilities, and other essential entities),
2. setting minimum design, construction, and equipment standards for infrastructure essential to energy utilities, including, but not limited to:
- a. major conveyances of electricity (such as transmission and distribution lines), and
b. generators of electricity (such as power plants and energy “farms”),
3. establishing mandatory procedures through which the above infrastructure is dismantled and/or repurposed after it can no longer be safely and efficiently utilized for its intended purpose(s), and
4. establishing a standardized method through which electric utilities provide crucial information pertaining to their operation (utility rates, revenue, expenses, profits or losses, generation and/or transmission statistics, etc) to the WAEC, on an annual basis, to better inform regulatory policy,
Requires that all member nations enforce the regulations set forth by the WAEC, doing so in the manner they find most effective, and in the event that a member nation does not,
- 1. the WAEC shall fine them in proportion to the estimated economic impact of their failure(s) of enforcement, unless it is due to a genuine, demonstrable lack of administrative capabilities, and
2. if their failure(s) of enforcement are due to a genuine, demonstrable lack of administrative capabilities, the WAEC shall grant them with financial support equivalent to the cost of to developing these capabilities within a reasonable time, and once they have, immediately begin enforcement of the relevant regulations, subject to the penalties stated above.
