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Market-Based Rate Database

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | Catalog Last Checked: September 24, 2026 at 08:49 PM
The MBR data asset mirrors data submitted by sellers with MBR authorization or seeking MBR authorization to the MBR Relational Database through the MBR Portal (website).

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@id https://data.ferc.gov/market-based-rate-database
@type DatasetSeries
contactPoint 
[
  {
    "fn": "FERC MBR Team",
    "hasEmail": "mailto:MBRDatabase@ferc.gov"
  }
]
description The MBR data asset mirrors data submitted by sellers with MBR authorization or seeking MBR authorization to the MBR Relational Database through the MBR Portal (website).
identifier https://data.ferc.gov/market-based-rate-database
seriesMember 
[
  {
    "@type": "Dataset",
    "title": "MBR Category Status",
    "publisher": {
      "name": "FERC: Office of Energy Market Regulation"
    },
    "identifier": "10",
    "description": "A seller's category status designation in each of the six market-based rate regions. Category 1 and Category 2 sellers are defined in 18 C.F.R. § 35.36.",
    "contactPoint": {
      "fn": "FERC MBR Team",
      "hasEmail": "mailto:MBRDatabase@ferc.gov"
    },
    "distribution": [
      {
        "@type": "Distribution",
        "accessURL": "https://data.ferc.gov/market-based-rate-database/mbr-category-status"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "@type": "Dataset",
    "title": "Entities to Entities",
    "publisher": {
      "name": "FERC: Office of Energy Market Regulation"
    },
    "identifier": "14",
    "description": "Basic information about a seller's Ultimate Upstream Affiliates. The term Ultimate Upstream Affiliate is defined in 18 CFR 35.36.",
    "contactPoint": {
      "fn": "FERC MBR Team",
      "hasEmail": "mailto:MBRDatabase@ferc.gov"
    },
    "distribution": [
      {
        "@type": "Distribution",
        "accessURL": "https://data.ferc.gov/market-based-rate-database/entities-to-entities"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "@type": "Dataset",
    "title": "Entities to Gen Assets",
    "publisher": {
      "name": "FERC: Office of Energy Market Regulation"
    },
    "identifier": "16",
    "description": "Basic information about a seller's electric generation assets.",
    "contactPoint": {
      "fn": "FERC MBR Team",
      "hasEmail": "mailto:MBRDatabase@ferc.gov"
    },
    "distribution": [
      {
        "@type": "Distribution",
        "accessURL": "https://data.ferc.gov/market-based-rate-database/entities-to-gen-assets"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "@type": "Dataset",
    "title": "Entities to PPAs",
    "publisher": {
      "name": "FERC: Office of Energy Market Regulation"
    },
    "identifier": "17",
    "description": "Basic information about a seller's long-term, firm agreements for the purchase or sale of energy or capacity.",
    "contactPoint": {
      "fn": "FERC MBR Team",
      "hasEmail": "mailto:MBRDatabase@ferc.gov"
    },
    "distribution": [
      {
        "@type": "Distribution",
        "accessURL": "https://data.ferc.gov/market-based-rate-database/entities-to-ppas"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "@type": "Dataset",
    "title": "MBR Authorizations",
    "publisher": {
      "name": "FERC: Office of Energy Market Regulation"
    },
    "identifier": "9",
    "description": "Basic information about a seller's market-based rate authorization, including the docket number in which it was first granted market-based rate authority and the associated tariff effective date.",
    "contactPoint": {
      "fn": "FERC MBR Team",
      "hasEmail": "mailto:MBRDatabase@ferc.gov"
    },
    "distribution": [
      {
        "@type": "Distribution",
        "accessURL": "https://data.ferc.gov/market-based-rate-database/mbr-authorizations"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "@type": "Dataset",
    "title": "Entities to Vertical Assets",
    "publisher": {
      "name": "FERC: Office of Energy Market Regulation"
    },
    "identifier": "15",
    "description": "Basic information about assets relevant to a seller's vertical market power analysis, including transmission, intrastate natural gas transportation, intrastate natural gas storage or distribution, and physical coal supply sources or transportation.",
    "contactPoint": {
      "fn": "FERC MBR Team",
      "hasEmail": "mailto:MBRDatabase@ferc.gov"
    },
    "distribution": [
      {
        "@type": "Distribution",
        "accessURL": "https://data.ferc.gov/market-based-rate-database/entities-to-vertical-assets"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "@type": "Dataset",
    "title": "MBR Operating Reserves",
    "publisher": {
      "name": "FERC: Office of Energy Market Regulation"
    },
    "identifier": "13",
    "description": "Basic information about sellers authorized to make third-party sales of operating reserves to a public utility that is purchasing ancillary services to satisfy its own open access transmission tariff requirements to offer ancillary services to its own customers. See Order No. 784.",
    "contactPoint": {
      "fn": "FERC MBR Team",
      "hasEmail": "mailto:MBRDatabase@ferc.gov"
    },
    "distribution": [
      {
        "@type": "Distribution",
        "accessURL": "https://data.ferc.gov/market-based-rate-database/mbr-operating-reserves"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "@type": "Dataset",
    "title": "Indicative Market Share Screens",
    "publisher": {
      "name": "FERC: Office of Energy Market Regulation"
    },
    "identifier": "18",
    "description": "Basic information pertaining to a seller's Market Share data.",
    "contactPoint": {
      "fn": "FERC MBR Team",
      "hasEmail": "mailto:MBRDatabase@ferc.gov"
    },
    "distribution": [
      {
        "@type": "Distribution",
        "accessURL": "https://data.ferc.gov/market-based-rate-database/indicative-market-share-screens"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "@type": "Dataset",
    "title": "Indicative Pivotal Supplier Screens",
    "publisher": {
      "name": "FERC: Office of Energy Market Regulation"
    },
    "identifier": "19",
    "description": "Basic information pertaining to the seller's Pivotal Supplier data.",
    "contactPoint": {
      "fn": "FERC MBR Team",
      "hasEmail": "mailto:MBRDatabase@ferc.gov"
    },
    "distribution": [
      {
        "@type": "Distribution",
        "accessURL": "https://data.ferc.gov/market-based-rate-database/indicative-pivotal-supplier-screens"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "@type": "Dataset",
    "title": "MBR Mitigations",
    "publisher": {
      "name": "FERC: Office of Energy Market Regulation"
    },
    "identifier": "11",
    "description": "Basic information related to any mitigation on a seller's market-based rate authority, including the balancing authority area or market where its market-based rate authority is mitigated, a narrative description of the mitigation, and the effective date of the tariff in which the mitigation was implemented. Sellers whose market-based rate authority is not mitigated in any balancing authority area or market are not required to make a submission to this table.",
    "contactPoint": {
      "fn": "FERC MBR Team",
      "hasEmail": "mailto:MBRDatabase@ferc.gov"
    },
    "distribution": [
      {
        "@type": "Distribution",
        "accessURL": "https://data.ferc.gov/market-based-rate-database/mbr-mitigations"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "@type": "Dataset",
    "title": "MBR Self Limitations",
    "publisher": {
      "name": "FERC: Office of Energy Market Regulation"
    },
    "identifier": "12",
    "description": "Basic information related to any voluntary limitations on a seller's market-based rate authority. If a seller has limited its market-based rate authority, it should use this table to identify the balancing authority areas, markets, or regions in which it is authorized to transact at market-based rates. Sellers who have not limited their market-based rate authority in any way do not need to make a submission to this table.",
    "contactPoint": {
      "fn": "FERC MBR Team",
      "hasEmail": "mailto:MBRDatabase@ferc.gov"
    },
    "distribution": [
      {
        "@type": "Distribution",
        "accessURL": "https://data.ferc.gov/market-based-rate-database/mbr-self-limitations"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "@type": "Dataset",
    "title": "Gen Assets",
    "publisher": {
      "name": "FERC: Office of Energy Market Regulation"
    },
    "identifier": "8",
    "description": "Information on generator assets distinct from the EIA table, created in the MBR Portal (website).",
    "contactPoint": {
      "fn": "FERC MBR Team",
      "hasEmail": "mailto:MBRDatabase@ferc.gov"
    },
    "distribution": [
      {
        "@type": "Distribution",
        "accessURL": "https://data.ferc.gov/market-based-rate-database/gen-assets"
      }
    ]
  }
]
title Market-Based Rate Database

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