---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 824w"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "824w"
heading: "Joint boards on economic dispatch"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/824w"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Federal Regulation and Development of Power"
  - "Subchapter II — Regulation of Electric Utility Companies Engaged in Interstate Commerce"
---

# §824w. Joint boards on economic dispatch

- (a) **In general—** The [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) shall convene joint boards on a regional basis pursuant to [section 824h of this title](/usc/16/824h.md) to study the issue of [security](/usc/16/796.md?p=16) constrained economic dispatch for the various market regions. The [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) shall designate the appropriate regions to be covered by each such joint board for purposes of this section.
- (b) **Membership—** The [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) shall request each [State](/usc/16/796.md?p=6) to nominate a representative for the appropriate regional joint board, and shall designate a member of the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) to chair and participate as a member of each such board.
- (c) **Powers—** The sole authority of each joint board convened under this section shall be to consider issues relevant to what constitutes “[security](/usc/16/796.md?p=16) constrained economic dispatch” and how such a mode of operating an electric energy system affects or enhances the reliability and affordability of service to customers in the region concerned and to make recommendations to the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) regarding such issues.
- (d) **Report to the Congress—** Within 1 year after August 8, 2005, the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) shall issue a report and submit such report to the Congress regarding the recommendations of the joint boards under this section and the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) may consolidate the recommendations of more than one such regional joint board, including any consensus recommendations for statutory or regulatory reform.

## Source credit

(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. II, § 223, as added Pub. L. 109–58, title XII, § 1298, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 986.)