[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4411 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4411

 To require Transmission Organizations to allow aggregators of retail 
 customers to submit to organized wholesale electric markets bids that 
aggregate demand flexibility of customers of certain utilities, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 23, 2024

  Mr. Durbin introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require Transmission Organizations to allow aggregators of retail 
 customers to submit to organized wholesale electric markets bids that 
aggregate demand flexibility of customers of certain utilities, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Responsive Energy Demand Unlocks 
Clean Energy Act'' or the ``REDUCE Act''.

SEC. 2. AGGREGATOR BIDDING INTO ORGANIZED POWER MARKETS.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any prohibition established by 
State law or a State commission (as defined in section 3 of the Federal 
Power Act (16 U.S.C. 796)) with respect to who may bid into an 
organized wholesale electric market, each Transmission Organization 
shall, consistent with any applicable market rules that do not 
establish such a prohibition, allow aggregators of retail customers to 
submit bids that aggregate demand flexibility of customers of utilities 
that distributed more than 4,000,000 megawatt-hours in the previous 
fiscal year.
    (b) Rulemaking.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shall issue a 
rule to carry out the requirements of subsection (a).
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