---
kind: "unit"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
key: "ch12/schII"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter II"
heading: "Regulation of Electric Utility Companies Engaged in Interstate Commerce"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/ch12-schII"
sections_count: 31
---

# Subchapter II — Regulation of Electric Utility Companies Engaged in Interstate Commerce

Title 16 — Conservation › Chapter 12 — Federal Regulation and Development of Power

## Sections

- [§824. Declaration of policy; application of subchapter](/usc/16/824.md)
- [§824a. Interconnection and coordination of facilities; emergencies; transmission to foreign countries](/usc/16/824a.md)
- [§824a–1. Pooling](/usc/16/824a-1.md)
- [§824a–2. Reliability](/usc/16/824a-2.md)
- [§824a–3. Cogeneration and small power production](/usc/16/824a-3.md)
- [§824a–4. Seasonal diversity electricity exchange](/usc/16/824a-4.md)
- [§824b. Disposition of property; consolidations; purchase of securities](/usc/16/824b.md)
- [§824c. Issuance of securities; assumption of liabilities](/usc/16/824c.md)
- [§824d. Rates and charges; schedules; suspension of new rates; automatic adjustment clauses](/usc/16/824d.md)
- [§824e. Power of Commission to fix rates and charges; determination of cost of production or transmission](/usc/16/824e.md)
- [§824f. Ordering furnishing of adequate service](/usc/16/824f.md)
- [§824g. Ascertainment of cost of property and depreciation](/usc/16/824g.md)
- [§824h. References to State boards by Commission](/usc/16/824h.md)
- [§824i. Interconnection authority](/usc/16/824i.md)
- [§824j. Wheeling authority](/usc/16/824j.md)
- [§824j–1. Open access by unregulated transmitting utilities](/usc/16/824j-1.md)
- [§824k. Orders requiring interconnection or wheeling](/usc/16/824k.md)
- [§824l. Information requirements](/usc/16/824l.md)
- [§824m. Sales by exempt wholesale generators](/usc/16/824m.md)
- [§824n. Repealed.](/usc/16/824n.md)
- [§824o. Electric reliability](/usc/16/824o.md)
- [§824o–1. Critical electric infrastructure security](/usc/16/824o-1.md)
- [§824p. Siting of interstate electric transmission facilities](/usc/16/824p.md)
- [§824q. Native load service obligation](/usc/16/824q.md)
- [§824r. Protection of transmission contracts in the Pacific Northwest](/usc/16/824r.md)
- [§824s. Transmission infrastructure investment](/usc/16/824s.md)
- [§824s–1. Incentives for cybersecurity investments](/usc/16/824s-1.md)
- [§824t. Electricity market transparency rules](/usc/16/824t.md)
- [§824u. Prohibition on filing false information](/usc/16/824u.md)
- [§824v. Prohibition of energy market manipulation](/usc/16/824v.md)
- [§824w. Joint boards on economic dispatch](/usc/16/824w.md)