Smart Meter Data Privacy Protection Act

This bill would bar certain state-regulated electric utilities from using, selling, or licensing data collected by customers' smart meters, except for billing, outage management, grid reliability, regulatory compliance, and customer-approved demand response programs. It applies only to utilities that are not wholly owned by United States persons. These utilities would have to report each year to the Federal Trade Commission on what smart meter data they collected, how they used it, and who they shared it with. If a utility misuses the data, it would have to credit the customer's bill three times the revenue it earned from that use, without passing the cost to other customers. The Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general could enforce the law, and states could keep stronger privacy laws.

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Sponsors

• Josh Riley Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors