California ISO Receives Honor as a "Company That Cares".FOLSOM, Calif. -- The California Independent System Operator Corporation (California ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. ) is achieving recognition by Center for Companies That Care. As an Honor Roll honor roll n. A list of names of people worthy of honor, especially: a. A list of students who have earned high grades during a specified period. b. A list of people who have served in the armed forces. recipient, the ISO is being awarded for its extraordinary commitment to its employees and the community. Center for Companies That Care is a national, not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping employers provide a positive work environment for employees and increase their involvement in the community. Honor Roll companies are selected by an independent panel of veteran professionals in a variety of industries. Each of the organizations named to the Honor Roll sustains a work environment founded on dignity and respect for all employees, develops great leaders, communicates standards of ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a and integrity and actively supports the community, among other outstanding attributes. The California ISO is committed to working in the community. ISO employees have volunteered countless hours and given generous contributions to charitable organizations This article is about charitable organizations. For other uses of the word charity, see Charity. A charitable organization (also known as a charity) is an organization with charitable purposes only. , locally and nationally. We have helped programs for foster children and seniors, cancer research, environmental clean-up and other various causes. The California ISO is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation charged with managing the flow of electricity along California's open-market wholesale power grid. The mission of the California ISO is to safeguard the reliable delivery of electricity, and ensure equal access to 25,000 circuit miles of "electron highway." As the impartial Favoring neither; disinterested; treating all alike; unbiased; equitable, fair, and just. operator of the wholesale power grid in the state, the California ISO conducts a small portion of the bulk power markets. These markets are used to allocate space on the transmission lines, maintain operating reserves In power systems, the operating reserve is the generating capacity available to the system operator within a short interval of time to meet demand in case a generator is lost or there is another disruption to the supply. and match supply with demand in real time. |
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