The Office of Electricity (OE) has released its Strategic Plan, outlining its focus on supporting President Trump’s and Secretary Wright’s administration priorities.
Executive Summary
The Strategic Plan identifies the responsibilities and actions OE must undertake to address five critical grid challenges: scaling for new load, delivering affordability, modernizing for reliability, achieving security and resilience, and advancing supply chain security. The strategy focuses on balancing near-term system needs with long-term transformation, ensuring the grid can support economic growth, national security objectives, and evolving customer and technology demands under increasingly dynamic conditions.
Organized around the strategic pathways to stabilize, optimize, and grow the electric system, the plan advances four goals:
- Strengthen, enhance, and expand the electric system’s capacity to reliably and affordably meet growing demand;
- Ensure reliability and security of the electricity grid;
- Catalyze on-shore production and availability of critical grid components to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers; and
- Accelerate innovation through the leveraging of cutting-edge scientific initiatives.
Through coordination across planning processes, infrastructure deployment, regulatory engagement, and technology development, OE will mitigate reliability risks, improve system performance, reduce exposure to external supply dependencies, and enable cost effective investment. Grounded in transparent collaboration and data-driven decision making, the strategy provides a focused framework for action and measurable outcomes.
Read the OE strategic plan.