What we read, and how we cite it.

The record we read

• FERC eLibrary, eFiling and the daily issuances list

  Orders, notices, complaints, protests and settlement filings in tracked dockets. This is the primary source and drives the majority of coverage.

  Cited as: Docket number, accession or document identifier, and filing date.

• Federal Register

  Rules, proposed rules and notices as published.

  Cited as: Document number, publication date, and the docket it belongs to.

• EIA

  Generator inventory, capacity additions and retirements, and demand series.

  Cited as: Series or form identifier, vintage, and the retrieval date.

• DOE and NERC public filings

  Reliability assessments, standards filings, event analyses and departmental records.

  Cited as: Report title, publication date, and the section relied on.

• State commissions

  Certificate proceedings, rate cases, resource plans and large-load tariff filings.

  Cited as: Commission, docket or case number, and the filed document.

• ISO and RTO public announcements

  Press releases, market notices, and published stakeholder and committee materials.

  Cited as: Operator, document title, and the date published.

Citation rules

1. 01 One document, one claim

   Every factual sentence traces to a document listed at the foot of the item. Where a figure appears in two records with different values, both are reported and the discrepancy is stated.

2. 02 Reported facts, not republished datasets

   Coverage of an ISO or RTO is written from FERC filings, the operator's own public announcements, published stakeholder and committee materials, and public reporting. Data feeds whose terms restrict redistribution are not used, and no item reproduces a proprietary dataset. Charts are built only from public-domain federal records, and each chart names its source and retrieval date.

3. 03 Filed figures only

   Capacity, cost and date figures are reproduced as filed. Nothing is modelled, extrapolated or rounded upward. Where a filing redacts a value, the item says so rather than estimating it.

4. 04 No bylines, no datelines, no people

   Items carry no author, no place line and no invented sources. Named individuals appear only when they are signatories or parties on the record, quoted from the document itself.

5. 05 Gaps are reported as gaps

   When a record we track is unavailable, the relevant section is short or absent for the day and the omission is logged. Coverage is never padded to fill a section.

6. 06 Corrections are permanent

   An item that misreads a filing is corrected in place with a dated note describing what was wrong. Corrected items are never silently deleted.

7. 07 Sponsorship is separate

   Sponsors see no coverage before publication and have no say in what is reported. Every sponsored unit is marked as such.