2022 NAICS national industry in sector 92 Public Administration

926130 Regulation and Administration of Communications, Electric, Gas, and Other Utilities

NAICS 926130 is the US industry code for regulation and administration of communications, electric, gas, and other utilities. It covers government establishments primarily engaged in the administration, regulation, licensing, and inspection of utilities, such as communications, electric power (including fossil, nuclear, solar, water, and wind), gas and water supply, and sewerage.

Code: 926130 (2022 NAICS)
Title: Regulation and Administration of Communications, Electric, Gas, and Other Utilities
Part of: Administration of Economic Programs
SBA small business limit: No SBA size standard is listed for this code.
Closest UK SIC: 84130 (details)

Changes coming. The NAICS 2027 revision applies to data from 1 January 2027, and SBA proposed new size standards on 20 August 2026. The values on this page are the ones in force today; we update this page when the official files change.

Official definition

This industry comprises government establishments primarily engaged in the administration, regulation, licensing, and inspection of utilities, such as communications, electric power (including fossil, nuclear, solar, water, and wind), gas and water supply, and sewerage.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

Operating utilities are classified in Subsector 221, Utilities.
Acting as lessors of public land for telecommunications structures (e.g., cellular phone towers) are classified in Industry 531190, Lessors of Other Real Estate Property.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Activities listed under 926130

The Census index assigns these 14 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

Communications commissions
Communications licensing commissions and agencies
Energy development and conservation programs, government
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Irrigation districts, nonoperating
Licensing and inspecting of utilities
Mosquito eradication districts
Nuclear energy inspection and regulation offices
Public service (except transportation) commissions, nonoperating
Public utility (except transportation) commissions, nonoperating
Regulation of utilities
Sanitation districts, nonoperating
Solar energy regulation
Wind generated electrical power regulation

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 8413), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

84130Regulation of and contribution to more efficient operation of businessesUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.

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Data last changed November 14, 2026. How this page is built.