Compliance that keeps pace with the grid
Energy compliance teams are buried under overlapping regimes — NERC CIP, FERC, EPA, PHMSA, state PUCs — each with its own evidence, deadlines, and audit posture. Automatic.co builds agents that do the assembly and reconciliation, while your officers keep the sign-off and the liability stays where it belongs.
- NERC CIP evidence & RSAW prep
- FERC & EPA filing assembly
- Emissions & REC reconciliation
- Full lineage for every audit
The regulatory surface keeps growing — the team doesn't
Utilities and generators answer to more overlapping authorities than almost any other industry.
A single integrated utility may simultaneously track NERC Reliability Standards and CIP cybersecurity controls, FERC market and transmission filings, EPA air and water permits, PHMSA pipeline integrity rules, and a patchwork of state PUC reporting. Each regime has its own evidence format, its own deadline cadence, and its own idea of what "defensible" means.
Most of that work isn't judgment — it's collection and reconciliation. Pulling SCADA tags and meter reads, matching them to the right control or rule version, formatting the RSAW or the Form, and chasing down the one artifact that's three weeks stale. Spreadsheets and a shrinking compliance team don't scale to it, and a missed control or a late filing carries penalties that run into seven figures per day.
Agents are good at exactly this shape of work: high-volume, rule-bound, evidence-heavy, and continuous. We deploy them inside your perimeter to carry the load — without ever taking the attestation out of a human's hands.
Where agents earn their keep
Specific, deployable workflows — not a generic chatbot bolted onto your wiki.
CIP evidence & RSAW prep
Continuously collect access logs, patch records, and config baselines, map them to the right CIP requirement, and assemble audit-ready RSAW packages with gaps flagged before the auditor finds them.
FERC & PHMSA filing assembly
Pull operational data into FERC Form filings and PHMSA integrity reports, reconcile against the current rule version, and route the draft to a named officer for sign-off.
Emissions & GHG reporting
Reconcile CEMS data, fuel records, and EPA GHGRP/CSAPR thresholds, catch reporting boundary errors, and prepare the annual submission with every number sourced.
Regulatory change monitoring
Watch FERC orders, NERC standard revisions, and state PUC dockets, and translate a new requirement into the specific controls and evidence your team now has to produce.
REC & renewable tracking
Track renewable energy credits across registries, reconcile generation against retirements, and surface mismatches before they become a compliance finding.
Audit response & RFI
When a regulator sends a data request, agents retrieve the relevant evidence with full lineage in hours instead of weeks — your team reviews and responds.
From rule text to a governed agent
A measured path that respects your audit posture at every step.
Map the regime
We inventory the standards you answer to, the evidence each demands, and where that data already lives in your OT/IT systems.
Encode the controls
We translate the rule requirements into deterministic checks the agent runs against your data — versioned, so the right rule applies to the right period.
Wire the guardrails
Approval gates on every filing, exception routing to the right officer, and lineage capture on every artifact the agent touches.
Run & defend
Agents work continuously inside your perimeter; your team reviews, signs, and walks into audits with reconstructable evidence.
Built for the OT/IT boundary, not the public cloud
Energy compliance data is some of the most sensitive there is — CEII, grid topology, generation profiles, and the access logs that protect critical infrastructure. None of that belongs in a third-party model's training set or a vendor's multi-tenant cloud.
We deploy where your data already has to live: inside your VPC, on your own hardware, or fully air-gapped behind the OT/IT boundary. Access mirrors your CIP-004 personnel program, every agent action is logged, and high-stakes steps require a named human to approve before anything is filed or changed.
- VPC, on-prem, or air-gapped deployment
- Role-based access aligned to CIP-004
- No model training on your data
- Human approval on every regulated action
Manual compliance vs. an agent-assisted program
The work that breaks small teams is the work agents are best at.
| Manual / spreadsheet | Agent-assisted program | |
|---|---|---|
| Evidence collection | Quarterly scramble before the audit | Continuous, with gaps flagged early |
| Rule changes | Caught when someone reads the docket | Monitored and translated into controls |
| Filing prep | Days of manual assembly per submission | Draft assembled, officer reviews & signs |
| Audit response | Weeks to reconstruct how a number was made | Lineage on demand, in hours |
| Accountability | Owned by an overstretched person | Owned by a human, supported by an agent |
Frequently asked questions
Can an agent file regulatory submissions on its own?
No — and you wouldn't want it to. Agents assemble the filing, reconcile it against the rule text, and surface exceptions, but a named compliance officer approves every NERC CIP, FERC, or EPA submission before it leaves your perimeter. The agent does the 90% of evidence-gathering grunt work; a human owns the attestation.
How do you handle NERC CIP and CEII-sensitive data?
Critical Energy/Electric Infrastructure Information never leaves your environment. We deploy in your VPC, on-prem, or air-gapped behind your OT/IT boundary, with role-based access that mirrors your CIP-004 personnel program. No model training on your data, ever.
What about audit defensibility when a regulator asks how a number was produced?
Every figure an agent reports carries lineage back to the source meter read, SCADA tag, invoice, or sensor record — with timestamps, the rule version applied, and the human who signed off. You can reconstruct any line of any filing on demand, which is exactly what an RFI or a NERC audit expects.
Which regulatory regimes do you cover?
NERC CIP and the broader Reliability Standards, FERC Order compliance and Form filings, EPA emissions (GHGRP, CSAPR, MATS), PHMSA pipeline integrity, state PUC reporting, and renewable/REC tracking. We adapt to your specific interconnection, ISO/RTO market, and jurisdictional mix.
Related industries & capabilities
Automatic.co builds compliant agents across the regulated economy.
Bring your toughest filing. We'll show you the agent.
One working session on a real NERC, FERC, or EPA workflow — and the governed path to running it in production inside your perimeter.