---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 18775"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "18775"
heading: "Plan for the modeling and forecasting of demand for minerals used in the energy sector"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/18775"
units:
  - "Chapter 162 — Energy Infrastructure"
  - "Subchapter IV — Energy Information Administration"
---

# §18775. Plan for the modeling and forecasting of demand for minerals used in the energy sector

- (a) **Plan—**
  - (1) **In general—** Not later than 180 days after November 15, 2021, the [Administrator](/usc/42/18771.md?p=1), in coordination with the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the United States Geological Survey, shall develop a plan for the modeling and forecasting of demand for energy technologies, including for energy production, transmission, or storage purposes, that use minerals that are or could be designated as [critical minerals](/usc/42/18771.md?p=3).
  - (2) **Inclusions—** The plan developed under [paragraph (1)](#a-1) shall identify—
    - (A) the type and quantity of minerals consumed, delineated by energy technology;
    - (B) existing markets for manufactured energy-producing, energy-transmission, and energy-storing equipment; and
    - (C) emerging or potential markets for new energy-producing, energy-transmission, and energy-storing technologies entering commercialization.
- (b) **Metrics—** The plan developed under [subsection (a)(1)](#a-1) shall produce forecasts of energy technology demand—
  - (1) over the 1-year, 5-year, and 10-year periods beginning on the date on which development of the plan is completed;
  - (2) by economic sector; and
  - (3) according to any other parameters that the [Administrator](/usc/42/18771.md?p=1), in collaboration with the [Secretary](/usc/42/18701.md?p=3) of the Interior, acting through the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the United States Geological Survey, determines are needed for the [Annual Critical Minerals Outlook](/usc/42/18771.md?p=2).
- (c) **Collaboration—** The [Administrator](/usc/42/18771.md?p=1) shall develop the plan under [subsection (a)(1)](#a-1) in consultation with—
  - (1) the [Secretary](/usc/42/18701.md?p=3) with respect to the possible trajectories of emerging energy-producing and energy-storing technologies; and
  - (2) the [Secretary](/usc/42/18701.md?p=3) of the Interior, acting through the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the United States Geological Survey—
    - (A) to ensure coordination;
    - (B) to avoid duplicative effort; and
    - (C) to align the analysis of demand with data and analysis of where the minerals are produced, refined, and subsequently processed into materials and parts that are used to build energy technologies.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–58, div. D, title IV, § 40415, Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 1044.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Wage Rate Requirements

For provisions relating to rates of wages to be paid to laborers and mechanics on projects for construction, alteration, or repair work funded under div. D or an amendment by div. D of Pub. L. 117–58, including authority of Secretary of Labor, see section 18851 of this title.