[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 177 (Wednesday, November 16, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6743-S6744]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. DURBIN:
  S. 5111. A bill to require Transmission Organizations to accept bids 
from aggregators of certain retail customers, and for other purposes; 
to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of 
the bill be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be 
printed in the Record, as follows:

                                S. 5111

       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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