YourVoice.Now Summary
Your MoneyCorporate BenefitsEnvironmentTransparency & AccountabilityPower companies would have to use the best wire available on big power-line jobs — with four ways out.
Your Money
A company could be excused from the wire rule for a job if it shows the wire would raise the price per kilowatt-hour a lot without a matching gain in capacity, efficiency, or strength. Regulators would set what proof that takes.
Corporate Benefits
Regulators must build four exits into the rules. They cover jobs already permitted or with wire already bought, emergency repairs, wire that would hurt safety or break a grid reliability rule, and wire that would cost far more for little gain.
Today a utility picks the wire for its own lines. On new lines and major rebuilds, it would have to use wire from the class regulators name.
Environment
The top class must hold wire that moves the most power with the least waste at a given voltage. Power lost as heat on the line has to be generated somewhere.
Transparency & Accountability
Regulators would have to set filing rules so a company shows it met the wire standard. Those filings can include data on what a given job would cost or save.
More about this bill
The wire strung on big power-line jobs would have to meet a federal grade. Federal regulators would set up a top class of wire and name which products belong in it. Wire in that class must carry the most power and waste the least. It must also be as strong as makers can build, weighing safety, reliability, and cost. Power companies would then have to use that wire on new lines and major rebuilds. Regulators would apply the rule through their say over what utilities may charge to move power. Nothing would change until they write the rules, which are due within a year. Companies would have to file proof that they used the listed wire. The rule would come with four exits. Jobs already permitted, or with wire already bought, are exempt. So is emergency repair after a disaster or an attack. A company could also skip the rule if the wire would hurt safety or break a grid reliability rule. It could skip it, too, by showing the wire would raise the price per kilowatt-hour a lot for little gain. The bill sets no rate and names no dollar amount.
Congressional Summary
Congress's official summary of this bill still describes an earlier version of the text, so we have left it out here. You can read it on Congress.gov.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Passed House
- Action Date
- 2026-09-15
- Date Added
- 2026-09-09
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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