NJ Energy Observability

NJ Energy Observability

Independent, public-data-based observability of New Jersey’s electricity system.

NJ Energy Observability is an open-source project that makes New Jersey’s electricity system more observable using publicly available data and reproducible methods.

This project is not an official product of:

  • the State of New Jersey,
  • the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities,
  • PJM Interconnection,
  • or any electric utility or market participant.

What this project is

  • A descriptive observability system, not a forecasting or optimization model
  • A collection of verifiable artifacts (scorecards, briefs, trackers)
  • A public reference implementation for monitoring complex energy systems transparently
  • A place where engineers, analysts, and stakeholders can inspect, challenge, and improve the structure of how information is processed

All outputs are derived from public sources only and can be independently reproduced.

What this project is not

  • Not a market forecast
  • Not a policy recommendation engine
  • Not an official regulatory scorecard
  • Not a performance evaluation of any utility, program, or actor
  • Not a repository of nonpublic or confidential data

Interpretation and use of the outputs are the responsibility of the reader.

Core artifacts

  • Quarterly Scorecard
    Zone-first (AECO, JCPL, PSEG, RECO) with a statewide rollup, focused on exposure and risk-relevant hours.

  • Metric Catalog & Design Rules
    A formal taxonomy that governs what metrics mean, how they can be used, and what claims are explicitly disallowed.

  • Baseline Registry
    Locked historical reference sets to prevent baseline drift and post-hoc reinterpretation.

  • Weekly Briefs
    PR-based, reviewable synthesis artifacts that turn public signals into structured questions—not conclusions.

  • EO1 Tracker
    A public-artifact-first tracker for Executive Order No. 1 implementation milestones.

Transparency & traceability

Every generated artifact is accompanied by:

  • source references
  • retrieval timestamps
  • query parameters
  • transformation summaries
  • version identifiers

The goal is trust through inspectability, not authority.

Contributions

Issues and pull requests are welcome via GitHub. The maintainer reserves the right to decline contributions that:

  • introduce nonpublic data,
  • embed forecasts or recommendations,
  • or violate the project’s observability guardrails.

See CONTRIBUTING.md and governance/not-in-scope.md.