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The bill increases transparency for consumers and policymakers by standardizing and publishing component-level electricity cost data and improving planning linkage with reliability assessments, but it risks higher administrative and rate-recovery-related costs for utilities and agencies, potential consumer bill increases, legal disputes over cost attribution, and some analytical limitations from reliance on existing ERO assessments.
Residential customers (homeowners, renters) and small businesses will get clearer, component-level explanations of their electricity bills (generation, transmission, distribution, policy costs, taxes), making it easier to understand and compare what is driving their bills.
State and federal policymakers, regulators, and utilities will receive standardized, comparable State-by-State and point-in-time data to better analyze bill drivers and design targeted rate, tax, or policy responses.
Grid planners, ISOs/RTOs and utilities will have improved linkage between ERO reliability findings and regional cost trends, supporting coordinated planning for load growth, resource adequacy, and transmission needs.
Utilities, market operators, and federal agencies will face new administrative and reporting burdens and may recover more categories of costs in rates; those costs (and broader grounds for recovery) could be passed through to consumers, raising bills.
Published point-in-time, componentized cost data could be misunderstood by consumers or used by stakeholders to generate political pressure or litigation, causing confusion, contentious rate debates, and litigation costs.
Ambiguities in attributing Federal, State, and local policy-related costs (and treating state policies as explicit cost components) may produce disputes over who pays for policy goals and could spur legal or political challenges, disproportionately affecting certain ratepayers and state budgets.
Based on analysis of 7 sections of legislative text.
Requires EIA (with FERC help) to produce and publish a standardized State-by-State seven-year breakdown of retail electricity bill components and post consumer-friendly results.
Official title: To direct the Energy Information Administration to conduct an analysis and publish a report on changes in the principal electricity cost components reflected in retail electricity bills for residential customers and small business customers in each State, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 9, 2026 by Ryan Mackenzie · Last progress July 9, 2026
Requires the Energy Information Administration (EIA), with FERC technical support, to prepare and publish a standardized, State-by-State analysis showing seven-year changes in the principal components of residential and small business retail electricity bills (generation, transmission, distribution, taxes/fees, and State policy costs, among others). The law mandates a consumer-friendly public presentation of the results and a report to Congress within 180 days of enactment, while preserving existing retail ratemaking authority. The analysis must use public data (including EIA Form 861 and RTO/ISO independent market monitor reports), account for reliability findings from the Electric Reliability Organization's latest long-term assessment, distinguish federal/state/local policy costs, and be prepared to compare across differing market structures and impacts from large new loads (e.g., data centers).