---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 2641"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "2641"
heading: "Voluntary guidelines"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/2641"
units:
  - "Chapter 46 — Public Utility Regulatory Policies"
  - "Subchapter IV — Administrative Provisions"
---

# §2641. Voluntary guidelines


The [Secretary](/usc/16/2602.md?p=14) may prescribe voluntary guidelines respecting the standards established by sections [2621(d)](/usc/16/2621.md?p=d) and [2623(b)](/usc/16/2623.md?p=b) of this title. Such guidelines may not expand the scope or legal effect of such standards or establish additional standards respecting [electric utility](/usc/16/2602.md?p=4) [rates](/usc/16/2602.md?p=10).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–617, title I, § 131, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3131.)