Bill speeds up approval for reliable power plants.
H.R. 1047 — GRID Power Act · Filed by Troy Balderson (R-OH) · 17 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 6, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill tells FERC to make new rules. These rules let power companies move certain power plants ahead in the waiting list. A power plant can jump the line if it will make the grid more reliable. The bill aims to add reliable power sources faster.
Who it affects
People who use electricity may get better service. Power companies and grid operators can move some projects ahead. But solar and wind projects may slow down.
One thing to notice
The bill defines reliable power in a narrow way. It does not include battery storage or systems that cut power use.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
17 cosponsors: 17 Republicans.
- Feb 6, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 6, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce and Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce”
- Jun 5, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jun 25, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 28 - 23”
- Sep 18, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 216 - 206 (Roll no. 279).”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
30 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 49 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $70,626,910 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 34 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 98% of bills with any report.
Troy Balderson, who sponsored the bill, received $1,216,382 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. — $54,660,000 in 3 reports
- Edison Electric Institute — $4,248,610 in 2 reports
- Duke Energy Corporation — $2,280,000 in 1 report
- National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (nreca) — $1,750,000 in 2 reports
- Public Service Enterprise Group — $890,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- FERC — The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency that makes rules for the electric grid.
- waiting list — The line of new power plants that want to connect to the grid.
- reliable power — Power plants that can turn on or off quickly to match what the grid needs.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (4,532 characters) on Jul 8, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,938 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-11-05.
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