In today’s energy sector, regulatory complexity isn’t a temporary headache—it’s the new normal. Utilities face an accelerating torrent of mandates from multiple levels of government. This includes FERC reliability standards, EPA emissions rules, state-level renewable portfolio standards, cybersecurity requirements under NERC-CIP, and emerging distributed energy resource (DER) interconnection rules. Add differing state implementations of the Inflation Reduction Act, and the result is a compliance landscape that changes almost quarterly.

For many utilities, the traditional response of spreadsheets, manual tracking, and armies of consultants has reached its breaking point. A single missed filing or misinterpretation of a new tariff can trigger eight-figure penalties, forced outages, or reputational damage. In 2024 alone, FERC issued more than $50 million in civil penalties, many tied to documentation and reporting failures that automated systems could have prevented.

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