42 U.S.C. § 18773 — Expansion of energy consumption surveys

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The Energy Information Administration must expand its three major energy surveys -- for manufacturers, commercial buildings, and homes -- to collect more detailed data on how energy is actually used. This will help identify efficiency opportunities and households facing high energy costs. Each survey gets specific new requirements, like breaking out industrial process heat by temperature and reporting household energy burden by income and location.

(a) In general Within 2 years of November 15, 2021, the Administrator must expand the Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey, the Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey, and the Residential Energy Consumption Survey to collect data on how energy is actually used. This helps find ways to improve energy efficiency and productivity, track changing energy-use patterns, and better understand and manage "miscellaneous" electric loads (uses other than heating, cooling, lighting, water heating, and refrigeration). (b) Requirements Across all three surveys, the Administrator must: collect end-use data more broadly and more often; use new collection tools -- like tapping other existing data sources, and building online or real-time reporting where possible -- to get better data while burdening survey respondents less; identify and report community-level economic and environmental effects, including energy supply reliability and security, and where households with high energy burdens are concentrated; and improve how the data is presented, including an interactive map showing economic, energy, and demographic measures at the national, regional, state, and local level, alone or combined, and folding the results into the Administration's digital distribution tools. For the Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey specifically, the Administrator must: give more detailed regional breakdowns; for large manufacturing facilities, break out process-heat use by the temperatures required; collect data on facilities' ability to switch energy sources (especially for heat processes), their use of electricity, biofuels, hydrogen, or other alternative fuels for process heat, and their use of demand response; and identify current and potential clusters of manufacturers in one area sharing clean-manufacturing infrastructure costs and benefits, such as hydrogen infrastructure or carbon dioxide capture and storage infrastructure. For the Residential Energy Consumption Survey specifically, the Administrator must: give more detailed breakdowns by geographic area (including every state), building type (including multifamily), household income, rural location, and other demographics; and report on household electrical service capacity, access to utility demand-management programs and bill credits, the regional energy mix used to generate electricity, and the household energy burden -- broken down by geographic area, by type of use (electricity, heating, and others), and by demographic traits linked to higher burden, including low income, being a minority household, living in manufactured or multifamily housing, being on a fixed or retirement income, renting, and other factors the Administrator identifies.

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(a) In general

Not later than 2 years after November 15, 2021, the Administrator shall implement measures to expand the Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey, the Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey, and the Residential Energy Consumption Survey to include data on energy end use in order to facilitate the identification of—

(1)

opportunities to improve energy efficiency and energy productivity;

(2)

changing patterns of energy use; and

(3)

opportunities to better understand and manage miscellaneous electric loads.

(b) Requirements

(1) In general

In carrying out subsection (a), the Administrator shall—

(A)

increase the scope and frequency of data collection on energy end uses and services;

(B)

use new data collection methods and tools in order to obtain more comprehensive data and reduce the burden on survey respondents, including by—

(i)

accessing other existing data sources; and

(ii)

if feasible, developing online and real-time reporting systems;

(C)

identify and report community-level economic and environmental impacts, including with respect to—

(i)

the reliability and security of the energy supply; and

(ii)

local areas with households with a high energy burden; and

(D)

improve the presentation of data, including by—

(i)

enabling the presentation of data in an interactive cartographic format on a national, regional, State, and local level with the functionality of viewing various economic, energy, and demographic measures on an individual basis or in combination; and

(ii)

incorporating the results of the data collection, methods, and tools described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) into existing and new digital distribution methods.

(2) Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey

With respect to the Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey, the Administrator shall—

(A)

implement measures to provide more detailed representations of data by region;

(B)

for large manufacturing facilities, break out process heat use by required process temperatures in order to facilitate the identification of opportunities for cost reductions and energy efficiency or energy productivity improvements;

(C)

collect information on—

(i)

energy source-switching capabilities, especially with respect to thermal processes and the efficiency of thermal processes;

(ii)

the use of electricity, biofuels, hydrogen, or other alternative fuels to produce process heat; and

(iii)

the use of demand response; and

(D)

identify current and potential future industrial clusters in which multiple firms and facilities in a defined geographic area share the costs and benefits of infrastructure for clean manufacturing, such as—

(i)

hydrogen generation, production, transport, use, and storage infrastructure; and

(ii)

carbon dioxide capture, transport, use, and storage infrastructure.

(3) Residential Energy Consumption Survey

With respect to the Residential Energy Consumption Survey, the Administrator shall—

(A)

implement measures to provide more detailed representations of data by—

(i)

geographic area, including by State (for each State);

(ii)

building type, including multi-family buildings;

(iii)

household income;

(iv)

location in a rural area; and

(v)

other demographic characteristics, as determined by the Administrator; and

(B)

report measures of—

(i)

household electrical service capacity;

(ii)

access to utility demand-side management programs and bill credits;

(iii)

characteristics of the energy mix used to generate electricity in different regions; and

(iv)

the household energy burden for households—

(I)

in different geographic areas;

(II)

by electricity, heating, and other end-uses; and

(III)

with different demographic characteristics that correlate with increased household energy burden, including—

(aa)

having a low household income;

(bb)

being a minority household;

(cc)

residing in manufactured or multifamily housing;

(dd)

being in a fixed or retirement income household;

(ee)

residing in rental housing; and

(ff)

other factors, as determined by the Administrator.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 117–58, div. D, title IV, § 40413, Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 1042.)

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2021Enacted · Pub. L. 117-58 · 135 Stat. 1042

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