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117th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 5111
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
November 16, 2022
Mr. Durbin introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
A BILL
To require Transmission Organizations to accept bids from aggregators of certain retail customers, and for other purposes.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Responsive Energy Demand Unlocks Clean Energy Act
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Aggregator bidding into organized power markets
Definitions of State regulatory authority and Transmission Organization
In this section, the terms State regulatory authority and Transmission Organization have the meanings given those terms in section 3 of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 796).
Requirement
Notwithstanding any prohibition established by a State regulatory authority with respect to who may bid into an organized power market, each Transmission Organization shall accept any bid from an aggregator of retail customers that aggregated the demand response of the customers of any utility that distributed more than 4,000,000 megawatt-hours in the previous fiscal year.
Rulemaking
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shall issue a rule to carry out the requirements of subsection (b).