117 S5111 IS: Responsive Energy Demand Unlocks Clean Energy Act U.S. Senate 2022-11-16 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.

II117th CONGRESS2d SessionS. 5111IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATESNovember 16, 2022Mr. Durbin introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesA BILLTo require Transmission Organizations to accept bids from aggregators of certain retail customers, and for other purposes.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Responsive Energy Demand Unlocks Clean Energy Act.

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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).