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Requires the Department of Energy and the Energy Information Administration to study and modernize how the U.S. measures energy inputs by developing and reporting a new “incident energy” statistic alongside existing primary and final energy measures. It directs DOE/EIA to complete a study and report to Congress within 18 months, to collect or model incident-energy data using surveys, Federal labs, remote sensing and other sources, and to publish data, methods, and uncertainty information in machine-readable form while preserving current primary-energy reporting.
The bill improves energy accounting, transparency, and support for electrification and decarbonization — benefiting planners, researchers, and markets — but raises nontrivial costs, short-term confusion, and methodological risks that could burden utilities, taxpayers, and policymakers.
Utilities, state and local governments, and energy planners gain clearer, more accurate energy-input metrics to guide infrastructure, investment, and policy decisions.
Consumers, investors, and researchers get greater transparency and consistent, machine-readable data (methods, assumptions, uncertainty) enabling independent analysis and more efficient markets.
Utilities, governments, and planners benefit from improved accounting of noncombustion and renewable energy, supporting electrification and decarbonization policy decisions.
Utilities, respondent firms, the EIA/DOE, and taxpayers will incur new data-collection, survey, and modeling costs and administrative burdens that may be passed to consumers or require public funding.
Policymakers, markets, and the public may face short-term confusion as historical comparisons are recalibrated and expanded metrics are introduced, complicating decisionmaking.
Model-based estimates and analytical approximations for hard-to-measure sources will introduce uncertainty and increase the risk of misinterpretation of energy statistics by researchers and policymakers.
Introduced February 20, 2026 by Sean Casten · Last progress February 20, 2026