To: Re: . But barring any outside access to price data (even in anonymized or aggregated form) could inhibit research and analysis,

The Notice requires that organizations that wish to join the Purchasing Challenge disclose to the Department of Energy (Department) several details about each associated CDR credit purchase, including the purchaser, supplier, underlying project, and crediting methodology. [...] 5 For example, while acknowledging the need to consider “the associated cost and administrative burden,” the Department’s 2023 Public Access Plan further states that digital data should be made available to researchers, industry, and the public “[t]o the greatest extent” and “with the fewest constraints” possible. [...] for the Study on Oversight of Carbon Mkts., Report on the Oversight of Existing and Prospective Carbon Markets 22 (Jan. [...] 2 The Department could better balance concerns about the disclosure of commercially sensitive information with the benefits of allowing researchers and market actors to access price data.8 For example, the Department could: Make price data public in anonymized form, as the Department has done in other contexts.9 The National Strategy to Advance Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing and Analytics recom. [...] The Office of Management and Budget has encouraged the use of tiered access (the creation of “multiple versions of a single dataset with varying levels of specificity and protection”).11 Limit access to this price information to researchers only, and require such researchers to sign non-disclosure agreements.