The record

LegislationLegislation· Sep 2026
HR 9332 Passed House — in Senate

Sponsored by Troy Balderson (R)

Load Forecasting Enhancement Act

Requires FERC to establish regional boards to study best practices for electric load forecasting.

Tradeoff

Creates a federal requirement for states to consider adopting electricity demand-forecasting standards developed by regional boards. No direct spending or budget offset mentioned.

What's in it

See official bill text

Negligible federal cost over 2026-2031; no significant change to the deficit.

The federal cost to set up and run regional boards for one year is negligible—just FERC staff time—but the policy requires state utility commissions to study and potentially adopt new load-forecasting standards, imposing small administrative costs on them and possibly higher FERC fees passed to utilities.

H.R. 9332, Load Forecasting Enhancement Act · Sep 2026

Passed the House by on September 15, 2026 — sitting in the Senate.

  1. House

    Introduced

    (Jun 18, 2026)

  2. House

    Committee on Energy and Commerce(Jun 18, 2026)

  3. House

    The Committee on Energy and Commerce voted to send it to the floor

    Reported 47 - 0(Jul 21, 2026)

    Committee report H. Rept. 119-823.

  4. House

    Passage of the bill

    Passed by (Sep 15, 2026)

    No individual votes were recorded.

  5. Senate

    Received from the House

    on Energy and Natural Resources(Sep 16, 2026)