EIA Rolls Out Annual Factory Energy Use Survey
Published Date: 5/5/2026
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Summary
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is starting a new yearly survey to track energy use in manufacturing, making updates more frequent and focused. This affects manufacturers in sectors 31-33, who’ll provide key energy data to help improve national energy models. Comments on this new survey are open until June 4, 2026, and the first data collection could start in 2026 for 2025 info.
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2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Annual Energy Survey for Manufacturers
If your business is a manufacturing establishment in NAICS sectors 31-33, EIA proposes a new Annual Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey (Form EIA-847) that could begin collection in 2026 for 2025 data. EIA estimates 4,500 respondents, 8,484 annual burden hours, and an annual reporting cost burden of $805,895 for the survey; comments are due by June 4, 2026.
Shorter Electronic-Only Data Form
EIA plans Form EIA-847 to be about 60 questions (versus more than 250 questions on the quadrennial Form EIA-846) and proposes to collect data only through the Centurion electronic platform, with a reduced sample size to lower response burden. EIA says this approach will let respondents choose relevant questions and will improve data editing and processing.
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