Proposed FERC Regulations Would Grant FERC Access To NERC Non-Public Transmission And Generation System Databases

FERC proposes to grant itself access to NERC's Transmission Availability Data System, Generating Availability Data System, and Protection System Misoperations Database.

On September 17, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) proposing to amend its regulations to require the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to provide the Commission with access to certain non-public transmission and generation databases.¹ This access is intended to provide more granular information to the Commission for its use in determining whether to order NERC to develop new or modified reliability standards. Although NERC's databases cover portions of Canada and Mexico, FERC's proposed regulations would only apply to information in those databases that relate to US facilities.