To promote competition in the area of digital energy management tools, enhance consumer access to electric energy and natural gas information, allow for the development and adoption of innovative products and services to help consumers, organizations, and governments manage their energy usage, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and improve electric grid reliability, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, To promote competition in the area of digital energy management tools, enhance consumer access to electric energy and natural gas information, allow for the development and adoption of innovative products and services to help consumers, organizations, and governments manage their energy usage, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and improve electric grid reliability, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers. The main policy domain is Energy, Environment, Technology.
Who Benefits and How
energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section HAEA0C2EC9C4A447EA9AA12706D610C32: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Access to Consumer Energy Information Act or the E-Access Act.
- Section H194DD717BCAD4ECDB81ED01BAF794AAF: 2. Definitions In this Act: The term electric consumer has the meaning given the term in section 3 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (16...
- Section H4B16DC67EDE34F62A3C5DC95177185B8: 3. Consumer access to electric energy and natural gas information Section 362(d) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6322(d)) is amended— in...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, To promote competition in the area of digital energy management tools, enhance consumer access to electric energy and natural gas information, allow for the development and adoption of innovative products and services to help consumers, organizations, and governments manage their energy usage, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and improve electric grid reliability, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers.
Key Policy Areas
Energy, Environment, Technology
Primary Purpose
This bill, To promote competition in the area of digital energy management tools, enhance consumer access to electric energy and natural gas information, allow for the development and adoption of innovative products and services to help consumers, organizations, and governments manage their energy usage, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and improve electric grid reliability, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Welch (for himself and Mr. Van Hollen) introduced the …
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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_commission"
- → The commission identified in the operative section
- "secretary_of_energy"
- → Secretary of Energy
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
a device that measures and records energy usage data at any interval. The term retail electric energy information means— the electric energy usage of an electric consumer over a time interval, as measured and recorded by the applicable meter
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