Grid Reliability and Resiliency Improvements Act

Subjects: Energy


<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2875 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2875

   To direct the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of Energy, the Federal Energy 
    Regulatory Commission, Regional Transmission Organizations, and 
  Independent System Operators, to submit a report to Congress on the 
                   reliability of the electric grid.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 26, 2023

Mr. Balderson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To direct the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of Energy, the Federal Energy 
    Regulatory Commission, Regional Transmission Organizations, and 
  Independent System Operators, to submit a report to Congress on the 
                   reliability of the electric grid.

    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 ``Grid Reliability and Resiliency 
Improvements Act''.

SEC. 2. IDENTIFYING AND PREVENTING RISKS TO THE LONG TERM RELIABILITY 
              OF ELECTRIC GRID AND ELECTRICITY GENERATION.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
and every two years thereafter, the Electric Reliability Organization 
(as defined in section 215(a)(2) of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 
824o(a)(2))), in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission, Regional Transmission Organizations, and 
Independent System Operators, shall submit to the Committee on Energy 
and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce of the House of Representatives a report that--
            (1) identifies State and Federal policies that affect, or 
        could affect, the retirement of facilities that generate 
        electricity, including retirement of such facilities that may 
        occur because the costs of compliance with such policies 
        economically disadvantages such facilities;
            (2) describes the impact of electric utility-level 
        environmental, social, and governance (ESG) commitments and 
        policies on electric grid reliability and whether such 
        commitments and policies contribute to the retirement of 
        facilities that generate electricity;
            (3) identifies the estimated number of facilities that 
        generate electricity in the United States that will be retired, 
        per calendar year, until 2030;
            (4) describes the estimated increase in demand for 
        electricity until calendar year 2030, taking into consideration 
        State and Federal economy-wide electrification efforts, and 
        whether the estimated level of new electricity generation that 
        will connect to the bulk-power system, including facilities and 
        control facilities and control systems necessary for operating 
        an interconnected electricity transmission network and 
        electricity from generation facilities needed to maintain 
        transmission system reliability, will meet such estimated 
        increase in demand for electricity by calendar year 2030;
            (5) outlines whether the current pace of facilities that 
        generate electricity from non-dispatchable variable energy 
        resources connecting to the bulk-power system is sufficient--
                    (A) to exceed the pace of retirement of facilities 
                that generate electricity from dispatchable, firm, or 
                flexible resources; and
                    (B) to meet the estimated increase in demand for 
                electricity by calendar year 2030;
            (6) provides recommendations to improve the reliability of 
        the electric grid and to ensure that electricity generation can 
        meet estimated demand for electricity by calendar year 2030, as 
        well as anticipated reserve margins;
            (7) identifies whether increased electricity generation 
        from natural gas and increased natural gas transportation is 
        essential to the reliability of the electric grid by calendar 
        year 2030 and the importance of natural gas for electricity 
        generation as a balancing, flexible resource; and
            (8) quantifies the benefits of generation of electricity 
        using flexible resources that can dispatch on demand, are able 
        to counter variations in electricity generation and demand, and 
        balance generation of electricity using intermittent and non-
        dispatchable resources.
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