Responsive Energy Demand Unlocks Clean Energy Act
This bill requires organizations that operate electric grid transmission facilities (e.g., Regional Transmission Organizations or Independent System Operators) to accept bids from certain aggregators, which procure power for groups of electricity customers participating in demand response programs. In demand response programs, end-use electricity customers are typically remunerated for voluntarily decreasing their short-term electrical consumption generally in response to compromised grid reliability or high wholesale electricity prices.
To require Transmission Organizations to accept bids from aggregators 
          of certain retail customers, 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''.

SEC. 2. AGGREGATOR BIDDING INTO ORGANIZED POWER MARKETS.

    (a) 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).
    (b) 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.
    (c) 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).
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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.
Responsive Energy Demand Unlocks Clean Energy Act
Sen. Durbin, Richard J.