---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7276a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7276a"
heading: "Technical assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7276a"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Department of Energy"
  - "Subchapter VI — Administrative Provisions"
  - "Part C — General Administrative Provisions"
---

# §7276a. Technical assistance


The [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) may provide technical assistance to [customers](/usc/42/7275.md?p=5) to, among other things, conduct [integrated resource planning](/usc/42/7275.md?p=2), implement [applicable integrated resource plans](/usc/42/7275.md?p=6), and otherwise comply with the requirements of sections [7275](/usc/42/7275.md) to [7276c](/usc/42/7276c.md) of this title. Technical assistance may include publications, workshops, conferences, one-to-one assistance, equipment loans, technology and resource assessment studies, marketing studies, and other mechanisms to transfer information on energy efficiency and renewable energy options and programs to [customers](/usc/42/7275.md?p=5). The [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) shall give priority to providing technical assistance to [customers](/usc/42/7275.md?p=5) that have limited capability to conduct [integrated resource planning](/usc/42/7275.md?p=2).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–381, title II, § 203, as added Pub. L. 102–486, title I, § 114, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2800.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984, and not as part of the Department of Energy Organization Act which comprises this chapter.