REDUCE Act

This bill would require regional grid operators, called Transmission Organizations, to let aggregators of retail customers submit bids into organized wholesale electricity markets. These bids would combine the ability of many customers to shift or reduce their electricity use, known as demand flexibility. The requirement would apply to customers of utilities that distributed more than 4,000,000 megawatt-hours in the previous fiscal year, and it would apply even if a state law or state commission bans such bidding. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission would have to issue a rule to carry this out within one year after the bill becomes law.

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Sponsors

• Richard J. Durbin Democrat sponsor
• 0 cosponsors