What a yes vote endorsed
Next-Generation Geothermal Research and Development Act
What this does
Congress directs the Department of Energy to expand federally funded geothermal research toward next-generation systems, a category the bill newly defines to include enhanced, closed-loop, and supercritical geothermal. It amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to create a next-generation geothermal research, development, demonstration, and commercial application program inside the Department's Geothermal Technologies Office, a competitively awarded center of excellence, and grants that can cover up to 80 percent of a commercial project's cost. It authorizes $150 million a year from 2027 through 2031, drawn from funds already authorized for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy rather than new money. It also directs at least one FORGE test site to gain next-generation testing capability within a year of enactment and requires the U.S. Geological Survey to update its national geothermal resource assessment every four years.
Passed the House by voice vote
How we know · 9 sourced claims
- The bill amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to direct federally funded research toward next-generation geothermal systems.Source: Sec. 2(a)
- It defines next-generation geothermal systems to include enhanced, closed-loop, and supercritical geothermal.Source: Sec. 2(a)(1), new EISA sec. 612 paragraph (9)
- It creates a next-generation geothermal research, development, demonstration, and commercial application program within the Department's Geothermal Technologies Office.Source: Sec. 2(a)(4)(E), new subsection (e)(1)
- It establishes a competitively awarded next-generation geothermal center of excellence.Source: Sec. 2(a)(4)(E), new subsection (e)(4)
- It authorizes grants that cover up to 80 percent of the cost of a commercial geothermal project.Source: Sec. 2(a)(4)(E), new subsection (e)(5)(D)
- It authorizes $150 million for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2031, drawn from funds otherwise authorized for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.Source: Sec. 2(a)(4), new subsection (f)
- It directs the Secretary to ensure at least one FORGE site can conduct next-generation geothermal testing within one year of enactment.Source: Sec. 2(a)(4)(D), new subsection (c) paragraph (7)
- It requires the U.S. Geological Survey to update the national geothermal resource assessment every four years, with the first update within two years.Source: Sec. 2(b)
- All provisions concern geothermal energy research and development, making this a single-subject measure.Source: Sec. 2
Reported lobbying
At least
11
organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing.
A floor, not a total. Those organizations were counted by the client name on 28 quarterly reports filed by 11 registered lobbying firms in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, so an organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. They carry no per-bill dollar figure and no position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY ENERGY
- ADVANCED ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING HOLDINGS (AEMH)
- EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE
- AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY
- DRAX GROUP
Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 6 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: the extract keeps five names per measure and no ranking is available.
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 and 2026 Q2. The pull came up 2 short in 2025 Q4 and 7 short in 2026 Q2 against the register's own count, so those quarters are the filings posted rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.