[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5111 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5111

 To require Transmission Organizations to accept bids from aggregators 
          of certain retail customers, and for other purposes.


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                   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

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                                 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).
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