The Alberta Electric System Operator, abbreviated AESO, is a not-for-profit entity responsible for the planning and operation of the Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

 Interconnected Electric System in a safe, reliable, and economical manner.

AESO operates a market for the exchange of electric energy in Alberta and attempts to uphold the principles of market fairness, openness, and efficiency. To this end AESO contracts with transmission facility owners to provide generators access to the electric grid.

AESO operates independently of any industry affiliations and owns no transmission or market assets.

See also

• Alberta electricity policy
  Alberta electricity policy
  In 1996, Alberta began to restructure its electricity market away from traditional regulation to a market-based system. The market now includes a host of buyers and sellers, and an increasingly diverse infrastructure....
  
  
• Electric power transmission
  Electric power transmission
  Electric-power transmission is the bulk transfer of electrical energy, from generating power plants to Electrical substations located near demand centers...
  
  
• Independent System Operator
• Electricity market
  Electricity market
  In economic terms, electricity is a commodity capable of being bought, sold and traded. An electricity market is a system for effecting purchases, through bids to buy; sales, through offers to sell; and short-term trades, generally in the form of financial or obligation swaps. Bids and offers use...