[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 17 (Thursday, January 28, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S368]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3090. Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and Mr. Tillis) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2953 proposed by Ms. 
Murkowski to the bill S. 2012, to provide for the modernization of the 
energy policy of the United States, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 123, between lines 19 and 20, insert the following:

     SEC. 1107. INCLUSION OF SMART GRID CAPABILITY ON ENERGY GUIDE 
                   LABELS.

       Section 324(a)(2) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act 
     (42 U.S.C. 6294(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following:
       ``(J) Special notes on smart grid capabilities.--
       ``(i) Initiation of rulemaking.--Not later than 1 year 
     after the date of the enactment of this subparagraph, the 
     Commission shall initiate a rulemaking to consider making a 
     special note in a prominent manner on any Energy Guide label 
     for any product that includes Smart Grid capability that--

       ``(I) Smart Grid capability is a feature of that product;
       ``(II) the use and value of that feature depend on the 
     Smart Grid capability of the utility system in which the 
     product is installed and the active utilization of that 
     feature by the customer; and
       ``(III) on a utility system with Smart Grid capability, the 
     use of the product's Smart Grid capability could reduce the 
     customer's cost of the product's annual operation by an 
     estimated dollar amount range representing the result of 
     incremental energy and electricity cost savings that would 
     result from the customer taking full advantage of such Smart 
     Grid capability.

       ``(ii) Completion of rulemaking.--Not later than 3 years 
     after the date of the enactment of this subparagraph, the 
     Commission shall complete the rulemaking initiated under 
     clause (i).''.
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