Congress quietly extends grid resilience program five more years
S. 4827 — POWER ON Act of 2026 · Filed by John Cornyn (R-TX) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jun 18, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill extends a federal electric grid resilience and outage-prevention program by five years, moving its authorization window from 2022–2026 to 2027–2031. It does not create new funding or change the program's scope—it simply keeps an existing initiative alive past its current expiration date.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole function is to reauthorize an existing federal program for electric grid reliability and outage prevention by extending its statutory authorization window. It is a routine reauthorization with no policy changes.
Who it affects
Ordinary citizens depend on reliable electricity. Extending a program designed to prevent outages and strengthen grid resilience maintains continuity of work that reduces blackout risk and improves infrastructure stability. No new costs or restrictions on citizens are imposed.
Named in the bill
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Section 40101, U.S. Department of Energy, electric grid operators
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Jun 18, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jun 18, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $290,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 11 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
John Cornyn, the sponsor, reported $2,042,484 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle. $3,500 of that came from 1 PAC tied to these lobbying clients.
- Edison International — $290,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (398 characters) on Jul 9, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 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 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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