New England Power Pool

Since 2005, the New England Power Pool (NEPOOL) has served as new England’s independent, FERC-approved stakeholder advisory group on all matters relating to the competitive wholesale market rules and transmission tariff design.

The NEPOOL stakeholder forum is designed to identify areas of consensus and resolve issues where possible, while defining, narrowing and clarifying issues or concerns where consensus is not achieved through the give and take of the NEPOOL process.

NEPOOL has over 500 members with diverse and varied interests. Its members include not only entities that own and operate bulk power facilities, but many others who are tasked specifically to represent the interests of consumers broadly, including 50+ consumer-owned utility systems, public interest groups, the offices of public advocates from four of New England’s six states (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire), and end-use consumers themselves. Members align with one of NEPOOL’s six sectors.

The New England Power Pool (NEPOOL) was formed in 1971 as a response to the great Northeast blackout of 1965 to coordinate transmission planning and to achieve economic and reliability benefits through coordinated regional dispatch of power. From its original formation nearly 50 years ago, NEPOOL has evolved in response to the changing needs of the region.