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The bill extends federal support for outage-prevention and grid resilience through 2031 to help utilities reduce outages, at the cost of additional federal spending borne by taxpayers.
Utilities and electric grid operators keep access to the federal outage-prevention and resilience program for FY2027–2031, enabling continued investments to reduce outages and strengthen grid reliability.
Taxpayers and the federal budget will fund the program's continuation for an additional five years (2027–2031), increasing federal spending and fiscal obligations.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Moves the statute's five-year covered window for the grid-resilience outage-prevention program from 2022–2026 to 2027–2031 and makes a minor technical edit.
Official title: Reauthorize a program for preventing outages and enhancing the resilience of the electric grid, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 18, 2026 by John Cornyn · Last progress June 18, 2026
Extends the five-year covered period for the federal program that funds projects to prevent power outages and improve electric grid resilience, shifting the statutory window from 2022–2026 to 2027–2031. Also makes a minor technical punctuation/edit to existing statutory language that does not change program scope or eligibility.