REDUCE Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8523 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8523

To require Transmission Organizations to allow bids from aggregators of 
           certain retail customers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 23, 2024

 Mr. Casten (for himself, Mr. Levin, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, 
and Mr. Tonko) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To require Transmission Organizations to allow bids from aggregators of 
           certain retail customers, and for other purposes.

    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 such term is defined in section 
3(15) of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 796(15))) 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 prohibition, allow aggregators of retail customers 
to submit bids that aggregate demand flexibility of the customers of 
utilities that distributed more than 4 million megawatt-hours in the 
previous fiscal year.
    (b) Rulemaking.--Not later than 12 months after the date of 
enactment of this section, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 
shall promulgate a final rule pursuant to subsection (a).
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