Congress orders study on AI for the power grid.
H.R. 9339 — Affordable Innovation for the Grid Act · Filed by Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) · 6 cosponsors · Introduced Jun 18, 2026 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The Department of Energy must study how smart computer systems could help the power grid. The study must look at how smart systems are used now. It must find what stops companies from using more smart systems. It must check if smart systems could speed up adding new power sources. The Department of Energy must report what it finds within one year.
Who it affects
The bill does not cost money from taxpayers right now. It creates a study that will give Congress facts about how smart systems could improve the power grid.
One thing to notice
The study may lead to future changes in rules about how power companies use smart systems. The report could shape what the government decides about grid technology later.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
6 cosponsors: 3 Democrats, 3 Republicans.
- Jun 18, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jun 18, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce and Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy”
- Jun 24, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jul 21, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 44 - 0”
- Sep 15, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote”
- Sep 15, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Guthrie moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
12 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 12 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $9,069,193 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 47 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 93% of bills with any report.
Diana Harshbarger, who sponsored the bill, received $710,520 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Petroleum Institute — $2,780,000 in 1 report
- Duke Energy Corporation — $2,280,000 in 1 report
- Edison Electric Institute — $1,689,193 in 1 report
- Information Technology Industry Council — $720,000 in 1 report
- American Electric Power Company, Inc. and Affiliated Corporations — $380,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Department of Energy — The government office that handles energy policy.
- 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 (2,150 characters) on Jul 2, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 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 Jun 2026 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 22, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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