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Bloom Energy

Corporate PAC FEC C00764290

Influence at a glance · Jan 2025 – Sep 2026Jan 25 – Sep 26 How we count
PAC giving to candidates$63K
Company lobbying, all issues $2.6M

Giving: FEC filings, net of refunds. Lobbying: the company’s own LD-2 reports, all issues, rounded to the nearest $10,000 each quarter. Two different filers, same 21 months.Lobbying: all issues, rounded to the nearest $10,000. Two filers, same 21 months. This PAC gives money raised from the company’s employees; the company itself can’t give to campaigns from its treasury.

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What they lobby on

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Bloom Energy reported federal lobbying in 8 of the last 8 quarters (Q4 2024 to Q3 2026), with its own in-house lobbyists and 7 outside firms. What follows is what the filings say it lobbied on, not which way.

Issue areas ranked by quarters filedQ4 24 → Q3 26

  • Budget/Appropriations8 of 88/8
  • Defense8 of 88/8
  • Energy/Nuclear8 of 88/8
  • Taxation/Internal Revenue Code8 of 88/8
  • Foreign Relations2 of 82/8
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation 1 of 8 · Show all 6
  • Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation1 of 81/8

Bills named in the filings 20 bills, this period

15 more, 6 named in only one filing · Show all 20

From the filings

“NEW: Department of Defense Appropriations S. 2572 - Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026? Provisions related to Bloom Energy appropriations requests. No Senate bill number? Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2027? Provisions related to Bloom Energy Appropriations requests.”
Q3 2026 filing · Budget/Appropriations, Defense
“P.L. 119-21: An Act to Provide for Reconciliation Pursuant to Title II of H. Con. Res. 14 (One Big Beautiful Bill); provisions related to implementation of tax credits”
Q3 2026 filing · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Contacted as listed on the filings

  • U.S. House
  • U.S. Senate
  • Executive Office of the PresidentEOP
  • Treasury
  • White House Office
  • DefenseDOD
  • Energy
  • InteriorDOI
  • Natl Aeronautics & Space AdministrationNASA
  • StateDOS

The House and Senate appear in every quarter; agencies in all 8 quarters.

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Source: Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (LD-2) by Bloom Energy, Senate Office of Public Records. Filings are due 20 days after each quarter ends.

From FEC filings: direct gifts this PAC reported, net of refunds · How we count

Gave directly to 24 sitting members of Congress in 2025–26.

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