is industry jargon for a company engaged exclusively in the provision of transmission service. To date, proposed Transcos have been criticized as insufficiently independent from the previous utility transmission owners.
a for-profit transmission company that both owns and operates transmission assets but does not own generation assets
The term for that portion of a functionally disaggregated electric utility’s business that involves the bulk transmission of power that is operated separately from any other power functions the utility might own or operate.