REDUCE Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
Preempts certain state barriers to aggregator participation in organized wholesale power markets and requires FERC to issue an implementing rule.
Who Benefits and How
Aggregators of retail customer demand flexibility could gain access to organized wholesale electric markets even where state law would otherwise block that participation.
Who Bears the Burden and How
States and some utilities would lose the ability to block covered aggregator bidding, and FERC would have to issue an implementing rule.
Key Provisions
- Requires each transmission organization to allow covered aggregators of retail customers to submit bids notwithstanding contrary state prohibitions.
- Directs FERC to issue a rule implementing the requirement within one year.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Preempts certain state barriers to aggregator participation in organized wholesale power markets and requires FERC to issue an implementing rule.
Key Policy Areas
Energy, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Preempts certain state barriers to aggregator participation in organized wholesale power markets and requires FERC to issue an implementing rule.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Aggregators of retail customer demand flexibility gaining access to organized wholesale power markets
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- States and utilities losing the ability to block covered aggregator bidding
- FERC staff issuing the implementing rule
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeCommittee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings …
Mr. Durbin introduced the following bill; which was read twice …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Aggregators of retail customer demand flexibility gaining access to organized wholesale power markets
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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