Voters’ Perceptions of the Energy Bills Relief Act

GoodPower commissioned a nationally representative survey from YouGov on public perceptions of the Energy Bills Relief Act (EBRA), including support for specific policy components and likelihood to vote for politicians who support the agenda. YouGov fielded the survey February 19 to 20, 2026, with an online sample of 1,011 U.S. voters. Overall, voters are very supportive of the EBRA (76% support or strongly support) and want politicians to lower energy costs, protect consumers, develop renewable energy, and modernize the grid.

After reading a short, non-partisan description of the bill, three-quarters of voters (76%) said they strongly or somewhat support the legislation, and only 5% opposed it. Support was broadly bipartisan: 78% of Democrats, 75% of Republicans, and 75% of Independents backed the EBRA, with no statistically significant difference between parties. The EBRA agenda also outperformed the alternative. When voters chose between a non-partisan description of the EBRA and the Trump administration’s pro-fossil fuel, deregulatory energy agenda, 69% preferred the EBRA approach.

The most compelling components of the EBRA are policies that hold corporations and government accountable. Limiting price gouging by energy companies proved the most popular provision, with 90% of voters holding a favorable view (74% strongly support). Protecting consumers from paying for new large energy users like data centers followed closely, at 88% support (69% strongly support). Direct assistance to households, including weatherization programs and energy assistance payments, was also immensely popular at 80% support (54% strongly support both). Upgrading the grid tested well too: 79% of voters supported increasing grid capacity and domestic supply of components, and 80% supported funding for community input in local development decisions.

When voters explained their views in their own words, cost savings and affordability was the most common theme (45% of responses), then support for renewable energy itself (22%) and grid reliability and modernization (18%).

A majority of voters, 58%, said they’d be likely to vote against a candidate who opposes the legislation, including 37% of Democrats who said they’d be very likely to do so. Majorities of Independents and Republicans said the same. On the other side of the ledger, 82 to 85% of voters said they’d be more likely to vote for a politician who works to stop energy price manipulation and pushes an agenda to lower energy bills, and 55% said they’d be less likely to vote for a politician who obstructs renewable energy.