Reliable Power Act

This bill would require the Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) to include an annual long-term assessment of whether the nation's bulk power grid has enough electricity generation to stay reliable, including under normal and extreme weather. If the ERO finds a risk of not having enough generation, it must publicly notify the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which must then notify the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other agencies it chooses. Those agencies would have to send FERC any pending regulations that affect power generation for review and comment. An agency could not finalize such a regulation until it responds in writing to FERC's comments and FERC determines the regulation is not likely to significantly harm grid reliability. The comments and responses would have to be published along with the regulation.

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Sponsors

• Tom Cotton Republican sponsor
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