# 119-hr-9332: Load Forecasting Enhancement Act

119-hr-9332, Load Forecasting Enhancement Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Balderson, Troy [R-OH-12] (R-OH); status passed_house; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-08).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-9332
- Congress: 119
- Title: Load Forecasting Enhancement Act
- Status: passed_house
- Introduced: 2026-06-18
- Sponsor: Rep. Balderson, Troy [R-OH-12] (R-OH)
- Cosponsors: 6
- Policy area: Energy
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-10-08

## Summary

**This bill would create regional joint boards chaired by FERC to study and improve electric load forecasting across States and recommend consistent best practices.** The work focuses on affordability, reliability, data transparency, forecasting methods, and how large industrial loads are evaluated. - State public utility and energy regulatory commissions will each send one representative to a regional joint board chaired by a FERC member. They will study best practices for forecasting methods, data collection, transparency, and stakeholder engagement. - Electric utilities and grid planners will get regionally developed best practices and FERC recommendations aimed at improving forecast accuracy, modeling, and data sharing to inform planning and reliability. - Boards must evaluate requests for large industrial or commercial electric service, including whether such facilities have made financial commitments to a utility, which may influence how those requests are reviewed.

## Cosponsors (6)

- Rep. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ-8] (D-NJ), 2026-06-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Joyce, John [R-PA-13] (R-PA), 2026-06-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7] (D-VA), 2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Kean, Thomas H. [R-NJ-7] (R-NJ), 2026-07-20T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9] (R-VA), 2026-07-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McClellan, Jennifer L. [D-VA-4] (D-VA), 2026-08-06T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Regional boards to improve power forecasts: benefit, medium. If enacted, FERC would set up regional joint boards within 90 days. Every State would be placed in a region. Each board would include one State utility regulator per State and a FERC member as chair. The boards would study how to make power‑use forecasts more accurate, transparent, and tied to reli…
- States face deadlines on power forecasting: mixed, high. The bill would require States to consider a new utility load‑forecasting standard based on FERC’s best‑practice report. For State‑regulated utilities, regulators would start or set a hearing within 1 year and finish with a decision within 2 years. These deadlines would not apply if the State alread…

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## Sources
- [119-hr-9332 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/9332)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9332 (as of 2026-10-08).