(b) In advancing the public interest, the commission shall balance consumer privacy, critical infrastructure security, grid modernization, and economic innovation considerations associated with electric power systems data access and transparency, including but not limited to the following principles:
- (1) Enabling ratepayers to access their energy consumption and production data;
- (2) Enabling ratepayers to authorize third-party data access, and allow verification of third-party authorization through electronic signature;
- (3) Increasing the amount of publicly-available data related to utility generation, transmission, and distribution systems, as well as non-utility data from third parties that provide generation or non-wire alternatives to individual customers or the grid; and
- (4) Ensuring that electric power systems data is made available through simple, electronic, consistent, machine-readable formats with temporal and geographic granularity.