METRIC Act

This bill directs the Secretary of Energy, with the Energy Information Administration (EIA), to study how the United States measures "primary energy" and to report findings and recommendations to Congress within 18 months. The study would review the current measure, its limits, alternative measures, and practices used by the International Energy Agency and other nations. The bill also requires the EIA to develop, collect, and report data on "incident energy," meaning the total energy entering an energy conversion system from sources such as fuels, sunlight, wind, and geothermal heat before conversion losses. Where direct data collection is not feasible, the EIA would publish annual model-based estimates. The EIA would publish this data alongside existing energy statistics and make its data and methods publicly available in machine-readable formats.

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Sponsors

• Sean Casten Democrat sponsor
• 2 cosponsors