Energy Threat Analysis Center Act of 2026
Sponsored By: Representative Castor (FL)
In Committee
Summary
Strengthening energy sector cyber resilience and threat analysis is the bill's core aim. It reauthorizes and reorganizes the Department of Energy's Energy Sector Operational Support for Cyberresilience Program to expand government‑industry collaboration, threat analysis, and mitigation.
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- Utilities and grid operators can get centralized, collective analysis and mitigations to help deny, disrupt, and reduce operational cyber impacts to energy systems.
- The bill enables information exchange at both classified and unclassified levels and deems voluntarily shared program information exempt from public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552).
- Governance is restructured to allow one or more Energy Threat Analysis Centers, extends the program timeline to 2027 through 2031, and makes provision of assistance solely and unreviewably subject to the Secretary's discretion while clarifying the program is not an advisory committee under the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
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Energy Threat Center to Protect the Grid
If enacted, this bill would let the Department of Energy carry out its energy cyberresilience program through one or more Energy Threat Analysis Centers. The centers would analyze classified and unclassified threat information, run advanced analytics, and offer mitigation recommendations to protect energy systems. Information shared under the program would be treated as voluntarily shared and exempt from public disclosure under federal and comparable State, Tribal, or local laws. The program would begin upon enactment and run through 2027 to 2031, and the Secretary would have sole, unreviewable discretion over who gets assistance or information and no one would gain a legal right to that help.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Castor (FL)
FL • D
Cosponsors
Evans (CO)
CO • R
Sponsored 2/2/2026
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