Reliable Power Act

This bill amends the Federal Power Act to give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission a review role over other agencies' regulations when the power grid is judged short on generation. It directs the Electric Reliability Organization to produce an annual long-term assessment of whether the bulk-power system can supply enough electricity to maintain reliability, including under extreme weather, and whether more generation is needed. If that assessment finds the system at risk of inadequate generation, the ERO must publicly notify the Commission that the grid is in a state of generation inadequacy. The Commission then notifies the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and any other agency it deems appropriate. Once notified, each of those agencies must submit any covered agency action to the Commission for review and comment before finalizing it. A covered agency action is a regulation that relates to or directly affects any generation resource in the bulk-power system. The agency may not finalize the regulation until it responds in writing to the Commission's comments and the Commission finds the action is not likely to have a significant negative impact on the grid's ability to supply enough electricity for reliability. Comments, recommendations, and responses must be placed in the rulemaking docket or made public.

At least 25 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 131 quarterly reports filed by 2 lobbying firms and by 25 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

2 of those filings did not cite this bill by number. They named a short title it shares with its Senate companion, S 3034, so the reference belongs to the pair rather than to one chamber’s vehicle.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA); Itc Holdings Corp; CMS Energy Corp; Edison Electric Institute; North American Electric Reliability Corporation. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 20 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.