Ancillary Services are services necessary to support the transmission of capacity and energy from generation resources to consumers, while maintaining the reliable operation of New York's transmission system. These services include Regulation and Operating Reserve, Energy Imbalance (using market-based pricing), and the cost-based services of Scheduling, System Control and Dispatch, Voltage Control and Black Start.
Regulation Service is the continuous balancing of resources with load to assist in maintaining scheduled interconnection frequency at 60 Hz. This is accomplished by committing on-line generators with output that is raised or lowered as necessary using Automatic Generation Control to follow moment-by-moment changes in load.
