Methodology
Coverage, source hierarchy, observation stages, review, and publication.
Coverage
Current publication includes investor-owned electric and natural-gas base-rate cases from 2020 forward in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Record-level source depth is disclosed through optional directory columns and on case pages. Data-center and large-load tariffs use a separate public contract.
Source hierarchy
Final commission orders and official docket records control. Procedural orders, utility applications, testimony, settlements, investor-relations material, and SEC filings follow in descending order of authority. Secondary sources are for discovery, not publication support.
Metric stages
Utility request, staff/I&E, consumer advocate, small-business advocate, other intervenor, utility rebuttal or rejoinder, settlement, recommended decision, and authorized values remain separate. Every material observation identifies its party, stage, scope, date, unit, and direct source. A settlement is not authorized until the Commission approves it.
Date basis
Every material date carries a basis: official Commission, company filing, statutory backstop, proposed settlement, procedural inference, or analyst estimate. Conditional dates retain their condition text, and multi-step rates retain each step. A suspension expiration is not a decision date; a proposed effective date is not an actual effective date.
Update cadence
Source surfaces are checked according to their configured cadence. Only the adapter capabilities listed in RateBase's capability report produce normalized candidates automatically; other detected changes enter a manual mapping queue. A final order or rates-effective event can trigger an earlier profile review, but every detected change remains a staged candidate until explicit publication approval.
Adapter capabilities
The level below describes what each adapter can normalize into a reviewable candidate. Discovery-only adapters detect source changes; they do not create approved facts or economics automatically.
| Adapter | Capability | Active endpoints | Typed proposals |
|---|---|---|---|
| fl_fpsc_rate | Document metadata | 1 | document, citation |
| ga_psc_docket | Event proposals | 3 | document, citation, event |
| il_icc_rate | Event proposals | 1 | document, citation, event |
| legacy_source | Discovery only | 33 | None |
| manual_research | Discovery only | 149 | None |
| mi_mpsc_rate | Discovery only | 1 | None |
| nc_ncuc_rate | Event proposals | 2 | document, citation, event |
| nj_bpu | Document metadata | 0 | None |
| nj_bpu_docket | Discovery only | 1 | None |
| official_rate_listing | Document metadata | 6 | document, citation |
| oh_puco | Discovery only | 1 | None |
| pa_puc | Event proposals | 0 | document, citation, event |
| pa_puc_active | Event proposals | 1 | document, citation, event |
| pa_puc_docket | Event proposals | 0 | document, citation, event |
| tx_puct | Discovery only | 1 | None |
| tx_rrc_gas | Discovery only | 1 | None |
| va_scc_case | Discovery only | 1 | None |
The complete machine-readable report, including configured endpoint counts and notes, is available in the public data downloads.
Publication workflow
Automated collection creates source-run candidates. Explicit approval writes canonical relational records transactionally; database audits then generate the site and public downloads. Material automated updates never publish directly.
To report a correction, identify the case, field, proposed value, and the supporting official source. The public correction route is published with the repository; submissions without source evidence are evaluated but do not replace approved data.