House Energy Subcommittee advances ETAC authorization to improve grid threat analysis
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The subcommittee adopted HR 7305 to authorize the Energy Threat Analysis Center, formalizing information-sharing between DOE, grid operators and intelligence partners to analyze and respond to cyber and physical threats to the power sector.
The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee adopted HR 7305, the Energy Threat Analysis Center Act of 2026, advancing the measure to the full committee.
The bill would formally authorize ETAC, a public-private initiative that supports two-way information sharing between grid operators, national labs, the intelligence community and the Department of Energy to improve threat analysis and response. The ranking member of the subcommittee (general lady from Florida's 14th District) described HR 7305 as “a straightforward common sense bill that formally authorizes a bipartisan cybersecurity initiative originally created in the bipartisan infrastructure law.”
A co-lead from Colorado praised ETAC’s preventive work and noted the National Lab of the Rockies hosts the ETAC pilot and partners with utilities such as Xcel Energy on threat assessments. The co-lead said the program’s coordination “literally saved lives” in other fusion-center contexts and argued similar integration strengthens energy-sector protection.
The chair called the question on HR 7305 and announced the voice vote result: “the ayes have it.” The bill was adopted and forwarded to the full committee. Staff was authorized to make technical and conforming edits.