The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission would gain power to ban people and companies that violate market manipulation rules from buying or selling electricity, electric energy products, or transmission services, either temporarily or permanently. The bill extends similar bans to natural gas markets and adds a new federal prohibition on knowingly filing false price information with federal agencies or private price-reporting services. Penalties would reach individual traders as well as the firms they work for. These powers target wholesale energy markets that ultimately shape prices paid by households and businesses.
Transparency & Accountability
- FERC enforcement reach — Power to bar individuals and firms from energy markets after violations
- False-reporting prohibition — New federal ban on filing false natural gas price data
Corporate Benefits
- Energy market manipulators — Face expanded purchase, sale, and transmission bans
Congressional Summary
Energy Consumer Protection Act of 2026This bill expands enforcement provisions under the Federal Power Act and the Natural Gas Act to protect consumers from price manipulation, including by allowing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to temporarily or permanently ban any person from trading in energy markets if the person (1) violates those acts by manipulating the electricity or natural gas markets, or (2) files false information regarding those markets.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2026-04-21
- Date Added
- 2026-05-09
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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