[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 90 (Thursday, May 23, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S3886]
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      By Mr. DURBIN:
  S. 4411. A bill to require Transmission Organizations to allow 
aggregators of retail customers to submit to organized wholesale 
electric markets bids that aggregate demand flexibility of customers of 
certain utilities, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Energy 
and Natural Resources.
  Mr. DURBIN. Madam 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. 4411

       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'' or the ``REDUCE Act''.

     SEC. 2. AGGREGATOR BIDDING INTO ORGANIZED POWER MARKETS.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any prohibition 
     established by State law or a State commission (as defined in 
     section 3 of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 796)) with 
     respect to who may bid into an organized wholesale electric 
     market, each Transmission Organization shall, consistent with 
     any applicable market rules that do not establish such a 
     prohibition, allow aggregators of retail customers to submit 
     bids that aggregate demand flexibility of customers of 
     utilities that distributed more than 4,000,000 megawatt-hours 
     in the previous fiscal year.
       (b) Rulemaking.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Federal Energy Regulatory 
     Commission shall issue a rule to carry out the requirements 
     of subsection (a).
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