Purpose and findings

(a) Purpose The purpose of this Act is to improve the energy performance, transparency, and decision-making of the United States by modernizing how the United States measures and accounts for gross amount of energy input into the national energy system. (b) Findings Congress finds that— (1) historical measures of primary energy were developed for economies dominated by combustion-based fuels and do not accurately capture the efficiency or system value of noncombustion energy sources; (2) differences in how primary energy are measured across fuel and renewable systems obscure trends in electrification, decarbonization, and energy productivity, hindering effective policymaking and misinforming researchers, market participants, and the public; and (3) enhancing national energy accounting through improved data collection, modeling, and transparency will strengthen evidence-based policymaking, support market efficiency, and better align United States statistics with the energy transition.