3.0.0 613 2023-01-11T13:36:17Z 2023-01-11T13:36:17Z Senate S 2017-03-13 115 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-03-13T21:04:02Z Ratepayer Fairness Act of 2017 115 1572 HR 2017-03-17 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy. Related bill CRS 2017-03-13 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2017-03-13 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress F000444 Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ] JEFF FLAKE R AZ N Energy Electric power generation and transmission Public utilities and utility rates State and local government operations Energy 00 2017-03-13 Introduced in Senate 2017-05-01T18:08:10Z Ratepayer Fairness Act

This bill amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to require a state regulatory authority and a nonregulated electric utility, to the extent that they allow electric utility rates to include charges that subsidize customer-side technology, to consider whether that subsidy would:

  • result in benefits predominately enjoyed by only the users of the customer-side technology;
  • shift costs of a customer-side technology to electricity consumers who do not use it, particularly in cases in which disparate economic or resource conditions exist among the electricity consumers cross-subsidizing the customer-side technology;
  • negatively affect resource utilization, fuel diversity, grid reliability, or grid security;
  • give any unfair competitive advantage to market the customer-side technology, including an analysis of whether a state regulatory authority has uncovered fraudulent customer-side technology marketing practices; and
  • be necessary to fulfill an obligation to serve electric consumers.

The bill sets deadlines within which the regulatory authority or electric utility must set a hearing date to consider and subsequently determine the subsidization of customer-side technology.

]]> Ratepayer Fairness Act Display Title Ratepayer Fairness Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to provide for the consideration by State regulatory authorities and nonregulated electric utilities of whether subsidies should be provided for the deployment, construction, maintenance, or operation of a customer-side technology. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Ratepayer Fairness Act Introduced in Senate 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s613is/xml/BILLS-115s613is.xml 2017-03-13 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. 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. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.