42 U.S.C. § 18772: Data collection in the electricity sector

Not later than 90 days after November 15, 2021 , the Administrator shall establish an online database to track the operation of the bulk power system in the contiguous 48 States (referred to in this section as the “Dashboard”). the U.S. Electric System Operating Data dashboard; or the Hourly Electric Grid Monitor. Not later than 1 year after November 15, 2021 , the Administrator shall expand the Dashboard to include, to the maximum extent practicable, hourly operating data collected from the electricity balancing authorities that operate the bulk power system in all of the several States, each territory of the United States, and the District of Columbia. total electricity demand; electricity demand by subregion; short-term electricity demand forecasts; total electricity generation; net electricity generation by fuel type, including renewables; electricity stored and discharged; total net electricity interchange; electricity interchange with directly interconnected balancing authorities; and within the metered boundaries of each balancing authority; and for each pricing node. measurements of greenhouse gas and other pollutant emissions collected by the Environmental Protection Agency; other data collected by the Environmental Protection Agency or other relevant Federal agencies, as the Administrator determines to be appropriate; and data collected by State or regional energy credit registries. the net generation of electricity by megawatt hour within the metered boundaries of each balancing authority; and where available, the average and marginal greenhouse gas emissions by megawatt hour of electricity generated within the metered boundaries of each balancing authority. on a real-time basis; and through an application programming interface that is publicly accessible. The system established under paragraph (1) shall complement any existing data dissemination efforts of the Administrator that make use of electricity generation data, such as electricity demand by subregion and electricity interchange with directly interconnected balancing authorities. Not later than 1 year after November 15, 2021 , the Administrator shall establish a system to provide to the public timely data on the integration of energy resources into the bulk power system and the electric distribution grids in the United States, and the observed effects of that integration. thermal generator cycling to accommodate intermittent generation; generation unit self-scheduling practices; renewable source curtailment; utility-scale storage; load response; aggregations of distributed energy resources at the distribution system level; power interchange between directly connected balancing authorities; expanding Regional Transmission Organization balancing authorities; accuracy of locational marginal prices; and signals to flexible demand; and disruptions to grid operations, including disruptions caused by cyber sources, physical sources, extreme weather events, or other sources. Not later than 1 year after November 15, 2021 , the Administrator shall establish a system to provide to the public timely data on the operations of load-serving entities in the electricity grids of the United States. the delivered generation resource mix for each load-serving entity; and the distributed energy resources operating within each service area of a load-serving entity; harmonize the data on delivered generation resource mix described in clause (i)(I) with measurements of greenhouse gas emissions collected by the Environmental Protection Agency; to the maximum extent practicable, disseminate the data described in clause (i)(I) and the harmonized data described in clause (ii) on a real-time basis; and provide historical data, beginning with the earliest calendar year practicable, but not later than calendar year 2020, on the delivered generation resource mix described in clause (i)(I). use existing voluntary industry methodologies, including reporting protocols, databases, and emissions and energy use tracking software that provide consistent, timely, and accessible carbon emissions intensity rates for delivered electricity; consider that generation and transmission entities may provide data on behalf of load-serving entities; to the extent that the Administrator determines necessary, and in a manner designed to protect confidential information, require each load-serving entity to submit additional information as needed to determine the delivered generation resource mix of the load-serving entity, including financial or contractual agreements for power and generation resource type attributes with respect to power owned by or retired by the load-serving entity; and for any portion of the generation resource mix of a load-serving entity that is otherwise unaccounted for, develop a methodology to assign to the load-serving entity a share of the otherwise unaccounted for resource mix of the relevant balancing authority.