payers, power supplies, or distribution customers as 
a result of transmission system constraints that pre-
vent the dispatch of least-cost generation resources. 
(5) Technical and non-technical losses and inef-
ficiencies. 
(6) A complete accounting of interconnection- 
related costs incurred by interconnection customers, 
transmitting utilities, or other entities, disaggregated 
by cost type and responsible party, including— 
(A) study fees; 
(B) milestones or reservation payments; 
(C) costs of local interconnection attach-
ment facilities; 
(D) grid network upgrade costs; and 
(E) estimates of costs to a larger system. 
(7) The projected and actual capacity and load 
of a system owned or operated by a transmitting 
utility or Transmission Organization and the pro-
jected and actual amount of energy delivered by 
such system. 
(8) Information and data on the use of capital- 
efficient advanced technologies, including informa-
tion on— 
(A) hourly usage; 
(B) the location of the technologies; and 
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(C) the types of technologies deployed. 
(9) Any additional metric the Commission de-
termines necessary to improve ratepayer afford-
ability and understanding of the transmission sector. 
(c) CONTENT OF INTERCONNECTION REPORTS.—In 
carrying out subsection (a), the Commission shall require 
a transmitting utility or Transmission Organization to re-
port, no less than quarterly, to the Commission informa-
tion and data on interconnection queues and details relat-
ing to interconnection study models used. 
(d) FORMAT OF REPORTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Pursuant to subsection (a), 
the Commission shall ensure the completeness, accu-
racy, and accessibility of information and data re-
ported to the Commission under the Federal Power 
Act, as the Commission determines necessary, by— 
(A) establishing standardized reporting re-
quirements that specify standards for describ-
ing and recording such information and data, 
and, if the Commission determines appropriate, 
providing templates or other tools to reduce ad-
ministrative burden; 
(B) providing a format for such informa-
tion and data to be submitted in a manner that 
is fully searchable and machine-readable; 
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(C) requiring any form filed by a transmit-
ting utility or a Transmission Organization con-
tains no blank cells, unless clearly marked as 
exempt pursuant to paragraph (2); 
(D) requiring any projections required 
under subsection (a) are defined, including key 
assumptions, methodologies, and any other in-
formation that could influence the result of the 
projection; and 
(E) requiring the information and data re-
ported under this section are made available to 
the public through a single, user-friendly web 
interface that allows users to search, filter, and 
download the data in a machine-readable for-
mat. 
(2) EXEMPTION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—A transmitting utility 
or a Transmission Organization may request an 
exemption from a requirement under paragraph 
(1) if such transmitting utility or Transmission 
Organization submits to the Commission a writ-
ten statement explaining why such an exemp-
tion is needed. 
(B) DETERMINATION.—The Commission 
may approve the request for an exemption if 
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the Commission determines that the exemption 
is justified based on the written statement sub-
mitted under subparagraph (A). 
(e) FERC FORM NO. 1.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date on which the Commission issues a rule 
under subsection (a), the Commission shall review 
covered forms. 
(2) COMPLETENESS.—Upon reviewing covered 
forms under paragraph (1), if the Commission deter-
mines that a covered form is incomplete, the Com-
mission shall require the relevant transmitting utility 
or Transmission Organization to file a revised 
FERC Form No. 1 in a manner that complies with 
the requirements of subsection (d) and the require-
ments under section 141.1 of title 18, Code of Fed-
eral Regulations (or any successor regulations). 
(3) COVERED
FORM
DEFINED.—In this sub-
section, the term ‘‘covered form’’ means a FERC 
Form No. 1 filed with the Commission by a trans-
mitting utility or Transmission Organization during 
the 5-year period immediately preceding the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
(4) MODERNIZATION AND CENTRALIZATION OF 
FERC FORM NO. 1.—Not later than 2 years after the 
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date of enactment of this Act, the Commission, in 
collaboration with the Administrator, shall make all 
historical and future FERC Form No. 1 filings pub-
licly available through the centralized data repository 
established under section 3. 
SEC. 3. DEVELOPMENT OF CENTRALIZED DATA REPOSI-
TORY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Commission, in collaboration 
with the Administrator, shall develop and maintain a 
searchable and publicly accessible data repository con-
taining information and data the Commission determines 
necessary to carry out the requirements of the Federal 
Power Act and this Act, including information and data 
reported or filed by a transmitting utility or Transmission 
Organization— 
(1) in FERC Form Nos. 1, 1–F, 3–Q, 714, 
715, and 730, including information or data from 
these forms reported prior to the date of enactment 
of this Act; and 
(2) pursuant to the requirements of this Act. 
(b) EIA EXPERTISE.—In collaborating with the 
Commission under this section with respect to the data 
repository developed under subsection (a), the Adminis-
trator shall— 
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