Casten, Levin, SEEC Clean Energy Deployment Task Force Unveil the Cheap Energy Agenda: A Roadmap to Lower Energy Costs for American Families
Washington, D.C. (September 24th, 2025) – Today, House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC) Clean Energy Deployment Task Force Co-Chairs U.S. Congressmen Sean Casten (IL-06) and Mike Levin (CA-49) unveiled the Cheap Energy Agenda, a consumer-focused approach to United States energy policy that ensures Americans have access to cheap, reliable, and clean energy.
To fulfill this agenda, Reps. Casten and Levin released a draft of their legislation, the Cheap Energy Act, which is a comprehensive approach to addressing the wide array of different factors that are raising energy bills.
“For too long, United States energy policy has prioritized the wants of energy producers over the needs of American consumers,” said Rep. Sean Casten. “It’s past time things change. The Cheap Energy Act is a consumer-focused approach to energy policy that is rooted in American values like choice and competition. It will lower the cost of energy for American consumers by ensuring they have access to cheap, reliable, and efficient energy.”
“Energy prices are way too high and millions of Americans are struggling to pay their energy bills because we’re caught in a cycle of favoring dirty energy producers over consumers. The path to lower energy costs must include consumer-first policies that prioritize clean, cheap energy,” said Rep. Mike Levin. “Our Cheap Energy Agenda outlines forward-thinking solutions that modernize the grid, reorient electricity markets to better serve the American people, and build a future that lowers the cost of energy for homes and businesses throughout the country. I'm proud to work with Rep. Casten on this foundation that will kickstart conversations on how to solve our energy crisis.”
A summary of the draft legislation can be found here.
A section-by-section of the draft legislation can be found here.
Text of the draft legislation can be found here.
At a time when electricity rates are soaring across the country and millions of families are struggling to pay their rising energy bills, the single most impactful thing we can do to lower energy costs for Americans is to expand access to cheap energy. The cheapest, most reliable forms of energy are also the cleanest. We have the tools to power America with abundant, affordable, American-made clean energy.
The missing link between those tools and expanded access to cheap, reliable, and clean energy is a consumer-first energy policy. For too long, U.S. energy policy has boosted the profits of energy producers at the expense of energy consumers. We must shift our focus to lowering costs and increasing reliability for American homes and businesses by deploying more clean energy.
The Cheap Energy Agenda prioritizes consumers and ensures access to cheap energy for our homes, businesses, and economy by:
- Providing energy assistance to millions of households, protecting families from utility shutoffs.
- Deploying more cheap energy – which is also the cleanest energy – by unblocking the bottlenecks that prevent new energy sources from reaching Americans.
- Protecting domestic natural gas prices from the higher-priced international market.
- Incentivizing electric utilities to save consumers’ money.
- Restoring the historic tax credits for cheap energy that Congress enacted in 2022 and revoked in 2025.
- Modernizing the electric grid to connect the cheapest forms of energy from the sometimes-distant places where it is generated to where people live and work.
- Providing incentives to work with communities and ensure our federal agencies are adequately staffed and resourced to review and process permits expeditiously.
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