Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Responsive Energy Demand Unlocks Clean Energy Act”.
Responsive Energy Demand Unlocks Clean Energy Act
A BILL
To require Transmission Organizations to accept bids from aggregators of certain retail customers, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Aggregator bidding into organized power markets
Definitions of State regulatory authority and Transmission Organization— In this section, the terms State regulatory authority and Transmission Organization have the meanings given those terms in section 3 of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 796).
Requirement— Notwithstanding any prohibition established by a State regulatory authority with respect to who may bid into an organized power market, each Transmission Organization shall accept any bid from an aggregator of retail customers that aggregated the demand response of the customers of any utility that distributed more than 4,000,000 megawatt-hours in the previous fiscal year.
Rulemaking— Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shall issue a rule to carry out the requirements of subsection (b).