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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 604
To require Transmission Organizations to allow bids from aggregators of
certain retail customers, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY22, 2025
Mr. C
ASTENintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To require Transmission Organizations to allow bids from
aggregators of certain retail customers, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Responsive Energy De-4
mand Unlocks Clean Energy Act’’ or the ‘‘REDUCE 5
Act’’. 6
SEC. 2. AGGREGATOR BIDDING INTO ORGANIZED POWER 7
MARKETS. 8
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Notwithstanding any prohibition 9
established by State law or a State commission (as such 10
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term is defined in section 3(15) of the Federal Power Act 1
(16 U.S.C. 796(15))) with respect to who may bid into 2
an organized wholesale electric market, each Transmission 3
Organization shall, consistent with any applicable market 4
rules that do not establish such prohibition, allow 5
aggregators of retail customers to submit bids that aggre-6
gate demand flexibility of the customers of utilities that 7
distributed more than 4 million megawatt-hours in the 8
previous fiscal year. 9
(b) R
ULEMAKING.—Not later than 12 months after 10
the date of enactment of this section, the Federal Energy 11
Regulatory Commission shall promulgate a final rule pur-12
suant to subsection (a). 13
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