(1) The commission shall obtain operational, market, and reliability data from a regional transmission organization or independent system operator.
(2) The commission may enter into a data-sharing agreement or confidentiality agreement to obtain the data described in Subsection (1).
(3) Data obtained under this section may include:
(a) resource sufficiency and adequacy results;
(b) transmission constraint modeling;
(c) congestion revenue rights, congestion offsets, and related settlement data;
(d) unit commitment or dispatch information;
(e) outage coordination data;
(f) tariff test results;
(g) monthly master file data;
(h) Western Energy Imbalance Market neutrality charges;
(i) out-of-market payments, including reliability run cost data;
(j) resource adequacy data; or
(k) deliverability, adequacy, or system impact studies.
(4) The commission may contract with an independent expert or market monitor to review and verify modeling, analyses, or cost allocations affecting a Utah generation facility or transmission facility.