[Congressional Bills 117th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 5111 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 5111 To require Transmission Organizations to accept bids from aggregators of certain retail customers, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ 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. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Responsive Energy Demand Unlocks Clean Energy Act''. SEC. 2. AGGREGATOR BIDDING INTO ORGANIZED POWER MARKETS. (a) 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). (b) 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. (c) 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). <all>