Accelerating Better Decision Making

When we started building Halcyon a couple of years ago, the vision was simple: aggregate energy regulatory data and make it accessible. From the very beginning – and still today – practitioners across sectors have told us that navigating the many sources and repositories is, to put it frankly, pretty much a nightmare. To this day, I've not had a single person say, "Oh, don't do that, it's really not a problem.” This gave us a lot of encouragement and strength – the type that comes from knowing you are on a worthy mission. That feeling that you are onto something.

Halcyon just launched its fourth data subscription, the Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Tracker. We already track gas-fired power generation assets, large load tariffs, and rate case cost of capital proceedings; this subscription deepens and broadens our coverage of US power infrastructure for anyone building, financing, supplying, or underwriting its future. Similar to our other data subscriptions, the BESS Tracker updates monthly, drawing data from every US state public utility or service commission, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and ISOs/RTOs, in a corpus of 5.4 million (and counting) documents. As with our other subscriptions, building and updating the tracker means extracting specific, structured data from a wide array of unstructured context. This first version contains over 250 assets with a power capacity greater than 100 megawatts, and includes more than 25 data fields per asset. These fields range from asset ID and relevant docket, to storage capacity and...