Combination utilities like SDG&E, PG&E, SoCalGas, and Avista operate under two entirely separate compliance regimes — electric and gas — managed by different teams, governed by different regulators, but running on the same infrastructure. GridGuard is the only platform built to manage both.
Combination utilities face a compliance challenge that pure electric or pure gas utilities do not: their assets, crews, and control rooms are shared, but their regulatory obligations are governed by entirely separate federal and state bodies.
Electric compliance (NERC, FERC, CPUC) and gas compliance (PHMSA, CPUC Gas Safety) operate in separate organizations with different tools, vocabularies, and reporting cadences — creating blind spots at the intersection.
A vegetation clearance violation under GO 95 Rule 35 may simultaneously trigger NERC FAC-003 obligations. A shared control room must satisfy both NERC CIP-006 and PHMSA CRM requirements. These intersections are rarely documented.
Field crews performing corrective maintenance on shared infrastructure generate evidence that satisfies both GO 165 and PHMSA OQ requirements — but without a unified platform, that evidence is filed in two separate systems and never linked.
GridGuard does not force your electric and gas teams into the same workflow. Instead, it gives each team their own purpose-built module while sharing a common data layer, AI engine, and executive reporting surface.
All electric (NERC, FERC, CPUC, WECC, CAISO, GO 95/128) and gas (PHMSA 49 CFR 191–195) obligations are loaded into a single register, tagged by regulatory body, team, and asset type.
When any finding, nonconformance, or incident is logged, the AI layer automatically scans for overlapping obligations across all eight regulatory bodies and surfaces them to the responsible team.
Electric and gas compliance teams work in their own module views (RSAW vs. DIMP, GO 95 vs. Leak Survey) while sharing a common evidence repository, calendar, and executive dashboard.
Leadership sees a single compliance health score across all regulatory bodies, with drill-down by program area. Quarterly CPUC, NERC, and PHMSA reports are generated from the same data layer.
The full suite of electric regulatory compliance modules — from RSAW documentation and NERC CIP controls to GO 95/128 field inspection tracking and cross-regulatory AI gap analysis.
Centralized NERC Reliability Standard Audit Worksheets with AI-assisted narrative generation and version control.
End-to-end lifecycle for WECC mitigation plan filings — submission status, regulatory responses, corrective actions.
Automatically identifies gaps between controls and NERC, FERC, CPUC, WECC, and CAISO requirements.
Structured test plan management for CIP cybersecurity controls across all BES Cyber Systems.
Asset-level inspection cadences for poles, conductors, manholes, and vaults — flagging overdue circuits.
Live compliance health score, obligation heatmaps, and audit readiness indicators for leadership reporting.
Purpose-built PHMSA compliance modules for gas distribution and transmission operators — DIMP, OQ, PAP, ERP, Leak Survey, and CRM — all integrated with the same AI engine and executive dashboard.
Distribution Integrity Management Program — threat identification, risk matrix scoring, and AI-assisted self-evaluation narratives.
30-day PHMSA filing deadline tracker with portal submission status and AI narrative generation.
Operator Qualification records for employees and contractors — covered task management with 90-day expiry alerts.
Grade 1/2/3 leak classification, patrol area cadence tracking, and overdue survey flagging by district.
Annual communications to all four required PHMSA audiences — excavators, emergency responders, municipalities, customers.
Fatigue management, alarm management, controller training records, and annual CRM review tracking.
GridGuard's AI layer is the only compliance intelligence engine that understands the regulatory intersections unique to combination utilities. When a finding is logged in any module, the AI automatically scans for obligations across all eight regulatory bodies.
A transmission structure failure simultaneously triggers NERC facility rating obligations and PHMSA DIMP threat reporting requirements.
Vegetation encroachment on a shared transmission corridor triggers both NERC FAC-003 and GO 95 Rule 35 clearance violations.
Field crews performing corrective maintenance on shared infrastructure must satisfy both GO 165 documentation and PHMSA OQ qualification records.
Combined gas-electric control rooms must satisfy NERC CIP-006 physical access controls and PHMSA CRM fatigue management simultaneously.
Every other compliance platform is built for a single regulatory domain. GridGuard's AI was designed from the ground up to understand the overlapping obligations of combination utilities — making cross-regulatory gap detection a core capability, not an afterthought.
Measured results across gas-and-electric programs managing overlapping NERC, CPUC, and PHMSA obligations.
Reduction in Audit Prep Time
Unified gas and electric compliance evidence eliminates cross-team coordination overhead
Regulatory Bodies in One Platform
FERC, NERC, CPUC, WECC, CAISO, and PHMSA obligations unified for combination utilities
Compliance Score Improvement
Average across combination utility programs after 12 months on GridGuard
Faster Cross-Regulatory Gap Analysis
AI overlap engine identifies NERC/PHMSA intersections that manual review misses
Metrics based on program-level outcomes observed across GridGuard deployments at large investor-owned utilities and transmission operators.
See how GridGuard manages electric and gas compliance obligations in a single platform — with AI-powered cross-regulatory overlap detection built specifically for combination utilities.
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