E-Access Act

This bill directs the Secretary of Energy and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to issue model guidelines, within 180 days, for how states can give electricity and natural gas customers, and companies they choose, electronic access to their energy usage, pricing, and billing data. The guidelines would cover free machine-readable data access with at least 24 months of history, privacy and security protections, customer consent rules, and terms for third parties and for software that runs on electric meters. States could submit their data-access policies to the Secretary for certification, and certified states could receive funds, with $10 million authorized for fiscal year 2026. The bill also adds such programs to what state energy plans may include and requires a report within one year on using individual customer meter data to settle wholesale electricity market prices.

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Sponsors

• Peter Welch Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors