§18772 Data Collection in the Electricity Sector

Summary

Requires the Administrator to create an online database called a Dashboard to track the bulk power system in the contiguous 48 States within 90 days after November 15, 2021. The Dashboard can be made by improving an existing EIA dashboard. Within 1 year after November 15, 2021, the Dashboard must, when practical, add hourly operating data from electricity balancing authorities across the States, territories, and D.C. That data can include items like total and subregion demand, short-term demand forecasts, total generation, generation by fuel (including renewables), stored and discharged electricity, net interchange and interchange with directly connected balancing authorities, and where available estimated marginal greenhouse gas emissions per megawatt-hour inside balancing authority boundaries and by pricing node. Also within 1 year after November 15, 2021, the Administrator must build a system that links the Dashboard’s generation data with EPA pollution measurements, other federal data, and state or regional energy registries. That linked dataset must show net generation by megawatt-hour inside each metered balancing authority and, where available, average and marginal greenhouse gas emissions per megawatt-hour. The system should share data in real time and by a public application programming interface when practical, and should work with the Administrator’s other data products. Within 1 year after November 15, 2021, the Administrator must also provide public data on how new energy resources affect the bulk and distribution grids (such as generator cycling, curtailment, storage, demand response, distributed resources, power interchange, grid expansions, price signals, and disruptions). The Administrator must set up a system, within the same 1-year deadline, to give timely data on load-serving entities, including at least annual delivered generation mixes and distributed resources in each service area, harmonized with EPA emissions, made available in real time when practical, with historical data no later than calendar year 2020. The Administrator should use existing voluntary industry methods, allow generation or transmission entities to report for load-serving entities, require extra information if needed (while protecting confidential data), and assign shares for any unaccounted-for portions of a load-serving entity’s resource mix.