Responsive Energy Demand Unlocks Clean Energy Act

Bill: 117-s-5111
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2022-11-16
Policy area: Energy
Latest action: action_date: 2022-11-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text: CR S6743)

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-11-16
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b>Responsive Energy Demand Unlocks Clean Energy Act</b></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">This bill requires organizations that operate electric grid transmission facilities (e.g., Regional Transmission Organizations or Independent System Operators) to accept bids from certain aggregators, which procure power for groups of electricity customers participating in demand response programs. In demand response programs, end-use electricity customers are typically remunerated for voluntarily decreasing their short-term electrical consumption generally in response to compromised grid reliability or high wholesale electricity prices.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 5111 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES November 16, 2022 Mr. Durbin introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources A BILL To require Transmission Organizations to accept bids from aggregators of certain retail customers, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Responsive Energy Demand Unlocks Clean Energy Act . 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).