Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§825j Investigations Relating to Electric Energy; Reports to Congress

Title 16 › Chapter 12— FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER › Subchapter III— LICENSEES AND PUBLIC UTILITIES; PROCEDURAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › § 825j

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Commission must investigate how electricity is produced, moved, and sold across the United States and its territories, including work done by federal, state, or local agencies even if the Commission does not normally control them. As much as possible, it must gather current facts about who owns and runs power facilities; how much they could make versus how much they actually make; the costs, prices, and contracts for different customers (residential, rural, commercial, industrial); and how these matters affect navigation, industry, commerce, and national defense. The Commission must report its findings to Congress.

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Title 16, §825j

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In order to secure information necessary or appropriate as a basis for recommending legislation, the Commission is authorized and directed to conduct investigations regarding the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electric energy, however produced, throughout the United States and its possessions, whether or not otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission, including the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electric energy by any agency, authority, or instrumentality of the United States, or of any State or municipality or other political subdivision of a State. It shall, so far as practicable, secure and keep current information regarding the ownership, operation, management, and control of all facilities for such generation, transmission, distribution, and sale; the capacity and output thereof and the relationship between the two; the cost of generation, transmission, and distribution; the rates, charges, and contracts in respect of the sale of electric energy and its service to residential, rural, commercial, and industrial consumers and other purchasers by private and public agencies; and the relation of any or all such facts to the development of navigation, industry, commerce, and the national defense. The Commission shall report to Congress the results of investigations made under authority of this section.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 825j

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60