Energy Department

The DOE oversees five power administrations that market and transmit electric power produced at federal hydroelectric projects: the Bonneville Power Administration, in the Pacific Northwest; the Alaska Power Administration; the Southeastern Power Administration, serving West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky; the Southwestern Power Administration, in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas; and

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is responsible for establishing rates for the transportation of oil by pipeline, such as the Trans-Alaska pipeline (pictured).
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the Western Area Power Administration, serving 15 midwestern and western states.