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Bill · 119th Congress · HR 4990

Wildfire Grid Resiliency Act

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Introduced 2025-08-15Topic: energy

Summary

Summary by the Congressional Research Service

Wildfire Grid Resiliency Act This bill requires the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response of the Department of Energy (DOE) to carry out a Resilience Accelerator Demonstration Program. Under the program, the office must make awards to DOE's National Laboratories for projects that demonstrate innovative technologies to improve the electric grid's resilience to wildfires, such as technologies for monitoring vegetation management or enhancing the safety of first responders who respond to electric grid emergencies.

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Action history

DateChamberActionStatus effect
2025-08-15HouseReferred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.refer
2025-08-15Introduced in Houseintroduce
2025-08-15Introduced in Houseintroduce
Source: GovInfo Bill Status (Library of Congress), fetched 2026-09-11. Provisions and opinion polling arrive in a later release.