Electric Supply Chain Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires the Secretary of Energy to prepare periodic assessments and congressional reports on the supply chain for electricity generation and transmission, covering vulnerabilities, national security concerns, foreign-dependency risks, workforce issues, advanced transmission technologies, and recommendations to secure and expand the supply chain.
Who Benefits and How
Utilities, domestic manufacturers, and national-security planners could benefit from more systematic federal monitoring of supply-chain vulnerabilities and opportunities tied to grid equipment, critical materials, and transmission technology.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Department of Energy must produce recurring assessments and reports, and the analysis may increase scrutiny of foreign dependencies, workforce composition, and investment barriers in the electricity supply chain.
Key Provisions
- Requires the Secretary, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, to prepare periodic assessments of the supply chain for electricity generation and transmission.
- Requires the assessments to address advanced transmission technologies, trends and vulnerabilities, foreign entities of concern, critical materials, investment barriers, workforce challenges, and national- and energy-security considerations.
- Requires identification of vulnerabilities associated with foreign dependence and with the employment of non-United States citizens at facilities that generate or transmit electricity.
- Requires congressional reports within one year and periodically thereafter, including recommendations to address emerging issues and secure and expand the supply chain.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires the Secretary of Energy to prepare periodic assessments and congressional reports on the supply chain for electricity generation and transmission, covering vulnerabilities, national security concerns, foreign-dependency risks, workforce issues, advanced transmission technologies, and recommendations to secure and expand the supply chain.
Key Policy Areas
Energy, National Security, Supply Chain, Critical Materials
Primary Purpose
Requires the Secretary of Energy to prepare periodic assessments and congressional reports on the supply chain for electricity generation and transmission, covering vulnerabilities, national security concerns, foreign-dependency risks, workforce issues, advanced transmission technologies, and recommendations to secure and expand the supply chain.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Domestic electricity-sector manufacturers, utilities, and policymakers focused on supply-chain security and resilience
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Department of Energy officials and market participants subject to increased federal scrutiny of supply-chain and workforce vulnerabilities
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed HouseReceived; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy …
Passed House (inferred from eh version)
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 267 - …
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas …
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5789-5790)
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on H.R. …
The House adopted the amendments en gros as agreed to …
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Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Advanced transmission technology manufacturers (advanced conductors), Domestic electric grid component manufacturers, Domestic grid component manufacturers
Positive-direction: Advanced transmission technology manufacturers (advanced conductors), Domestic electric grid component manufacturers, Domestic grid component manufacturers
Negative-direction: Foreign entities of concern (China-linked suppliers)
Department of Energy, Energy security policymakers and Congress
Positive-direction: Energy security policymakers and Congress
Negative-direction: Department of Energy
On Passage
Electric Supply Chain Act
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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