119 HR 604 IH: Responsive Energy Demand Unlocks Clean Energy Act U.S. House of Representatives 2025-01-22 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I119th CONGRESS1st SessionH. R. 604IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESJanuary 22, 2025Mr. Casten introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and CommerceA BILLTo require Transmission Organizations to allow bids from aggregators of certain retail customers, and for other purposes.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Responsive Energy Demand Unlocks Clean Energy Act or the REDUCE Act.

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Aggregator bidding into organized power markets

(a)

In general

Notwithstanding any prohibition established by State law or a State commission (as such term is defined in section 3(15) of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 796(15))) with respect to who may bid into an organized wholesale electric market, each Transmission Organization shall, consistent with any applicable market rules that do not establish such prohibition, allow aggregators of retail customers to submit bids that aggregate demand flexibility of the customers of utilities that distributed more than 4 million megawatt-hours in the previous fiscal year. (b)

Rulemaking

Not later than 12 months after the date of enactment of this section, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shall promulgate a final rule pursuant to subsection (a).