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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3192 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 3192
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
November 18, 2025
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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