Sec. 6. Data transparency
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Part II of the Federal Power Act ( 16 U.S.C. 824 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: The Commission shall require all public utilities and other entities subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission to make hourly operating data transparent and accessible to the public, including— as original source data posted in a timely manner; and through coordination with an online database operated by the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration. Data made publicly available under subsection
(a)shall— be organized and easy to understand; be centralized and provided in usable formats, including an application programming interface; be available free of charge or at-cost; be published in a timely manner; include generation by fuel type; and include average and hourly, or more frequent if technologically feasible, marginal greenhouse gas emissions per megawatt hour of electricity generated within the metered boundaries of each entity and for each pricing node. The Commission may identify and reduce regulatory barriers to the development of commercial products that use the data made publicly available under subsection
(a)in order to provide verifiable emissions reductions, including short- and long-term nodal congestion products. In addition to amounts otherwise made available to the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, there is appropriated to the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration for fiscal year 2023, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $10,000,000 to develop and operate the database described in subsection (a)(2), to remain available until expended. .
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