Compliance Resources
The email best suited for compliance questions, engagements, or sending information to the Compliance department team.
What is compliance@gsec.coop?
The policy that establishes GSEC’s stance on adverse employment action against an employee for stepping forward with a concern, complaint, or grievance made in good faith or for cooperating in an investigation of such a matter.
What is GSEC’s Anti-Retaliation Policy?
GSEC operates in these two markets.
What are the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) and Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)?
In 2006, this entity was certified as the Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) responsible for developing and enforcing mandatory electric reliability standards under FERC oversight.
Who is NERC?
The undertaking of activities or establishment of practices or policies in accordance with the requirements or expectations of an external authority.
What is Compliance?
The Chief Compliance Officer at GSEC, among other hats.
Who is James Guy?
The policy intended to encourage and enable employees to report concerns regarding potentially unlawful or unethical behavior for prompt internal investigation and appropriate action.
What is GSEC’s Whistleblower Policy?
The independent system operator governed by a board of directors and subject to oversight by the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Texas Legislature.
What is the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)?
The two Regional Entities with which GSEC is registered for its NERC functions.
What is the Midwest Reliability Corporation (MRO) and Texas Reliability Entity (Texas RE)?
Documentation used to prove compliance with a specific rule or regulation.
What is compliance evidence?
The best way to anonymously report incidents of potential misconduct.
What is the Speak up! Compliance Hotline?
The policy that describes the responsibilities, requirements, and process that employees and managers must follow for legitimate business expenses of the cooperative.
What is GSEC's Employee Expense and Credit Card Policy?
An independent federal agency that regulates the transmission and wholesale sales of electricity in interstate commerce, governs the rates, terms and conditions of SPP through its Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT or Tariff), in addition to the Membership Agreement and Bylaws.
What is the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)?
These are GSEC’s current NERC functional registrations.
What are Generator Owner (GO) and Resource Planner (RP)?
The NERC-registered Generator Operator for GSEC’s generation plants and acts as GSEC’s agent for ERCOT Qualified Scheduling Entity activities.
Who is ACES?
A resource that establishes expectations of conduct for all GSEC employees to support our efforts and guide our performance to meet the highest ethical standards within the workplace.
What is the Code of Conduct?
The program document that describes GSEC’s commitment to and the processes and structures in place for a strong NERC compliance program.
What is the GSEC NERC Internal Compliance Program (ICP)?
The process of which requests must go through to make additions, deletions, or changes to SPP documents, such as the SPP tariff, Operating Criteria, Business Practices, and more.
What is the SPP Revision Request Process?
A requirement or set of requirements, approved by the FERC under Section 215 of the Federal Power Act, to provide for Reliable Operation of the Bulk Power System.
What is a NERC Reliability Standard?
The Operations and Maintenance (O&M) provider for GSEC’s generation facilities.
Who is NRG?
A database and task-management tool that houses all regulatory rules/requirements that apply to GSEC and automates repetitive compliance tasks in a single platform.
What is Agiloft?
The document that describes the values, ethical standards, principles, and some of the internal controls required of staff and agents conducting GSEC business related to the production, purchase, and sale of energy and energy-related products and the purchase and sale of associated commodities.
What is the GSEC Trading Code of Ethics and Sound Trading Practices?
The binding document that contains the scheduling, operating, planning, reliability, and Settlement (including Customer registration) policies, rules, guidelines, procedures, standards, and criteria of ERCOT.
What are the ERCOT Nodal Protocols?
A report by a Registered Entity stating that the Registered Entity believes it has, or may have, violated a Reliability Standard.
What is a Self-Report?
The three groups that provide the governance and oversight of GSEC’s compliance program.
Who are IRMC, RA&F, and The Board of Directors?