[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2947 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2947

To amend the Federal Power Act to clarify the authority of the Federal 
  Energy Regulatory Commission to prescribe just, reasonable, and not 
     unduly discriminatory or preferential terms, conditions, and 
     compensation applicable to wholesale demand response resource 
 participation in organized wholesale energy, capacity, and ancillary 
                            service markets.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 20, 2014

 Mr. Heinrich introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Power Act to clarify the authority of the Federal 
  Energy Regulatory Commission to prescribe just, reasonable, and not 
     unduly discriminatory or preferential terms, conditions, and 
     compensation applicable to wholesale demand response resource 
 participation in organized wholesale energy, capacity, and ancillary 
                            service markets.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. TREATMENT OF WHOLESALE DEMAND RESPONSE RESOURCES.

    Section 206(a) of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824e(a)) is 
amended--
            (1) by designating the first through third sentences as 
        paragraphs (1) through (3), respectively; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Treatment of wholesale demand response resources.--
                    ``(A) Definitions.--In this paragraph:
                            ``(i) Demand response.--The term `demand 
                        response' means a reduction in the consumption 
                        of electric energy by customers from their 
                        expected consumption in response to an increase 
                        in the price of electric energy or to incentive 
                        payments designed to induce lower consumption 
                        of electric energy.
                            ``(ii) Demand response resource.--The term 
                        `demand response resource' means a resource 
                        capable of providing demand response.
                    ``(B) Authority.--The Commission may prescribe 
                just, reasonable, and not unduly discriminatory or 
                preferential terms, conditions, and compensation 
                applicable to wholesale demand response resource 
                participation in organized wholesale energy, capacity, 
                and ancillary service markets.''.
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