The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Regional Transmission Organizations, and Public Utility Commissions must protect and enhance electricity customers’ stakeholder representation, foster a transparent decision-making process, and provide accountability to ensure promised benefits.

Robust, well-governed markets depend on transparency. Electricity customers and their advocates deserve to know the rationale behind Regional Transmission Organizations and utility investments—that means access to the underlying assumptions and the data at a granular level.

Electricity customers need transparency for assurance that electricity providers are making sound reliability investments.