§18772 Data collection in the electricity sector

Summary

Create an online dashboard to track how the big electricity grid works in the contiguous 48 States. The Energy Information Administration must set this up within 90 days after November 15, 2021 and may build it by improving a current EIA dashboard. Within 1 year after November 15, 2021, the dashboard must, when possible, show hourly data from the balancing authorities that run the bulk power system across the States, territories, and the District of Columbia. That hourly data can include things like total and subregion demand, short-term demand forecasts, total generation, generation by fuel (including renewables), electricity stored and discharged, net interchange with other areas, and, where available, estimated marginal greenhouse gas emissions per megawatt-hour for each balancing authority and for each pricing node. Also within 1 year after November 15, 2021, the EIA must set up systems that link the electricity data with emissions data from the EPA and other relevant federal or state sources. The goal is a combined dataset showing net generation by megawatt-hour inside each balancing authority and, where available, average and marginal greenhouse gas emissions per megawatt-hour. The data should be shared in near real time when practical, be available through a public API, track how new resources affect the grid (for example, curtailment, storage, demand response, and outages), and give timely and annual information about the generation mix and distributed resources used by load-serving entities, including historical data back to 2020.