S.Amdt. 3090

SA 3090. Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and Mr. Tillis) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2953 proposed by Ms.
Murkowski to the bill S. 2012, to provide for the modernization of the
energy policy of the United States, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 123, between lines 19 and 20, insert the following:

SEC. 1107. INCLUSION OF SMART GRID CAPABILITY ON ENERGY GUIDE
LABELS.

Section 324(a)(2) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act
(42 U.S.C. 6294(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
``(J) Special notes on smart grid capabilities.--
``(i) Initiation of rulemaking.--Not later than 1 year
after the date of the enactment of this subparagraph, the
Commission shall initiate a rulemaking to consider making a
special note in a prominent manner on any Energy Guide label
for any product that includes Smart Grid capability that--

``(I) Smart Grid capability is a feature of that product;
``(II) the use and value of that feature depend on the
Smart Grid capability of the utility system in which the
product is installed and the active utilization of that
feature by the customer; and
``(III) on a utility system with Smart Grid capability, the
use of the product's Smart Grid capability could reduce the
customer's cost of the product's annual operation by an
estimated dollar amount range representing the result of
incremental energy and electricity cost savings that would
result from the customer taking full advantage of such Smart
Grid capability.

``(ii) Completion of rulemaking.--Not later than 3 years
after the date of the enactment of this subparagraph, the
Commission shall complete the rulemaking initiated under
clause (i).''.
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