119 S3192 IS: Responsive Energy Demand Unlocks Clean Energy Act U.S. Senate 2025-11-18 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.

II119th CONGRESS1st SessionS. 3192IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATESNovember 18, 2025Mr. Durbin introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesA BILLTo require Transmission Organizations to allow aggregators of retail customers to submit to organized wholesale electric markets bids that aggregate demand flexibility of customers of certain utilities, 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 defined in section 3 of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 796)) 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 a prohibition, allow aggregators of retail customers to submit bids that aggregate demand flexibility of customers of utilities that distributed more than 4,000,000 megawatt-hours in the previous fiscal year.(b)

Rulemaking

Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shall issue a rule to carry out the requirements of subsection (a).