EIA Extends Electric Power Surveys for Another Three Years
Published Date: 3/23/2026
Notice
Summary
The Energy Information Administration is extending its Electric Power Surveys for three more years with some updates. These surveys collect important info from companies that make, move, and sell electricity to keep the power grid running smoothly. If you’re involved, you’ve got until April 22, 2026, to share your thoughts—no extra costs, just keeping the data flowing!
Analyzed Economic Effects
6 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 4 costs, 0 mixed.
Estimated Annual Reporting Cost Burden
EIA estimates the annual reporting burden at 251,176 hours and an annual cost burden of $23,846,649.44 (calculated as 251,176 hours × $94.94 per hour). EIA says there are no capital or start-up costs and that the information is maintained in the normal course of business.
Three-Year Extension of Power Surveys
The Energy Information Administration is extending its Electric Power Surveys (OMB Control No. 1905-0129) for three years. If your company makes, moves, delivers, or sells electricity you must continue providing data under these surveys; comments are due by April 22, 2026.
Frame Size Increases for Generation Surveys
EIA is changing the frame size for Forms EIA-860A, EIA-860M, EIA-923A, and EIA-923M so that all new generating units are counted. These frame-size changes increase the estimated number of respondents, total responses, and burden hours for those surveys.
Discontinue Photovoltaic Shipments Form
EIA will discontinue Form EIA-63B, the Photovoltaic Module Shipments Report, because the agency says the data value no longer exceeds collection burden. If you report photovoltaic module shipments on that form, you will no longer have to submit that specific report.
New Spinning Reserve Questions Added
EIA added five new questions to Form EIA-930A, Schedule 5, asking whether a Balancing Authority (BA) or Reserve Sharing Group (RSG) has a spinning reserve target, the target in megawatts, hours operated below target last year, minimum spinning reserve held last year (MW), and number of deployments last year. These questions apply to the 63 Balancing Authorities in the contiguous United States that report on EIA-930A.
Clarified Reliability Reporting Instructions
EIA revised the Form EIA-861 instructions for Schedule 3, Part B to clarify how to report SAIDI and SAIFI (System Average Interruption Duration/Frequency Index) including Major Event Days but excluding events initiated by a high-voltage loss of supply. The changes aim to make reliability reporting language clearer for respondents.
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