EIA Annual Energy Outlook 2026: energy scenarios through 2050
An archived EIA planning resource released April 8, 2026, with scenario tables, assumptions and energy projections through 2050.
Original publisher: U.S. Energy Information Administration
Resource type: Report and data suite
Original publisher: U.S. Energy Information Administration
Original release date: April 8, 2026
EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2026 compares alternative U.S. energy pathways through 2050. The suite includes a narrative, data tables, visualizations and descriptions of 11 modeled cases. It examines how assumptions about policy, markets and technology affect energy demand and supply.
For infrastructure planning, the electricity discussion addresses data-center demand and future generating capacity. The natural-gas discussion considers production and pipeline requirements. These are conditional scenarios, not predictions or evidence that a particular project is approved.
Read the original report and explore its tables · EIA’s April 8 release and context.
Archived resource, curated October 6, 2026. This entry summarizes and links to EIA’s work; it does not republish the full report or present its April release as new news.
Source checked: 2026-10-07. Original EIA report and release checked. Background resource; originally released April 8, 2026.