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Corporate Energy Buyers Association

Trade association PAC FEC C00917567

Influence at a glance · Jan 2025 – Sep 2026Jan 25 – Sep 26 How we count
PAC giving to candidates$23K
Trade association lobbying, all issues $1.5M

Giving: FEC filings, net of refunds. Lobbying: the trade association’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 trade association’s employees or members; the trade association itself can’t give to campaigns from its treasury.

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What they lobby on

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Corporate Energy Buyers Association reported federal lobbying in 8 of the last 8 quarters (Q4 2024 to Q3 2026), with its own in-house lobbyists and 1 outside firm. 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
  • Energy/Nuclear8 of 88/8
  • Taxation/Internal Revenue Code8 of 88/8
  • Government Issues6 of 86/8
  • Trade (domestic/foreign)6 of 86/8
Manufacturing 5 of 8 · Show all 6
  • Manufacturing5 of 85/8

Bills named in the filings 141 bills, this period

136 more, 84 named in only one filing · Show all 141

From the filings

“Issues related to the FY2025 and FY2026 appropriations, including federal R&D or agency funding for clean energy, project siting, energy storage, demand response, micro grid projects or transmission build-out. H.R.1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
Q3 2025 filing · Budget/Appropriations
“electric grid reliability”
Q3 2026 filing · Energy/Nuclear

Contacted as listed on the filings

  • U.S. House
  • U.S. Senate
  • Energy
  • Natl Economic CouncilNEC
  • Treasury
  • White House Office
  • InteriorDOI
  • Internal Revenue ServiceIRS
  • CommerceDOC
  • Federal Energy Regulatory CommissionFERC
  • Intl Trade AdministrationITA
  • LaborDOL
  • 3 more

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 Corporate Energy Buyers Association, 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 11 sitting members of Congress in 2025–26.

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