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S 4166 Cleared committee

Requires each state's energy security plan to address weather, physical attack, supply chain, and cyber threats to local electric distribution systems, meaning utility infrastructure rated at 100 kilovolts or less.

Official title: SECURE Grid Act

Next stop Senate floor: awaiting a vote
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Senate
Introduced 24-MAR-2026
Referred 24-MAR-2026
Approved by committee 30-SEP-2026
Key points
  • Defines a local distribution system as energy infrastructure owned and operated by an electric utility at 100 kilovolts or less.
  • Requires state energy security plans to cover physical threats, cybersecurity threats, and supply chain risks to local distribution systems and the bulk-power system, along with methods for responding to and recovering from them.
  • Extends the plan requirements to suppliers of electricity generation, transmission, and distribution equipment, and makes state submissions to the Secretary of Energy required without Secretary approval.
  • Directs the Comptroller General to report by September 30, 2030, on whether state energy security plans have improved state risk management, and sets the section to expire on September 30, 2031.
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Official CRS summary

Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Introduced in Senate, 24-MAR-2026).

CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov
Committee referrals (1) Policy area

Energy

Sponsor Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) Cosponsors · 2
■ 1 R■ 1 D
1 Republican
1 Democrat