major and two minor nerc interconnections and the nine nerc regional reliability councils . the northeast power coordinating council npcc was formed january 19 1966 as a successor to the canada united states eastern interconnection canuse . npcc is one of nine regional electric reliability councils under north american electric reliability corporation nerc authority . nerc and the regional reliability councils were formed following the northeast blackout of 1965 . npcc s offices are located in new york city new york . the npcc region lies within the eastern interconnection and occupies the greater new england region of north america covering all of the states of maine vermont new hampshire massachusetts new york connecticut rhode island and the provinces of ontario qu bec new brunswick nova scotia and prince edward island . npcc also has ties to non nerc systems in northern canada . in terms of load served npcc covers 20 % of the eastern interconnection s total load demand and 70 % of canada s entire demand . the hydro qu bec system which encompasses all of qu bec is commonly considered as part of the eastern interconnection even though it technically is its own interconnection . it is tied to rest of the npcc and eastern interconnection through four high voltage direct current ties . see also edit north american electric reliability corporation nerc external links edit official website v t e north american electric reliability corporation nerc regional reliability councils ascc frcc mro npcc rfc serc spp tre wecc interconnections alaska interconnection eastern interconnection quebec interconnection texas interconnection western interconnection retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title northeast power coordinating council & oldid 739920586 categories electric power transmission system operators in the united stateselectric power transmission system operators in canadaeastern interconnectioncompanies based in new york cityenergy companies established in 19661966 establishments in the united states navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 17 september 2016 at 22 48 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view