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REDUCE Act

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.

Introduced Nov 18, 2025

Latest action (Apr 15, 2026) Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 119-366.

Referred to
Energy and Natural Resources Committee Energy Subcommittee
Policy area
Energy
Issues
Climate & Energy
Legislative subjects (5)
Commodities marketsEnergy storage, supplies, demandPublic contracts and procurementPublic utilities and utility ratesRetail and wholesale trades

Summary
  • The bill requires Transmission Organizations to allow aggregators of retail customers to submit bids that aggregate customer demand flexibility to organized wholesale electric markets.
  • The requirement applies to customers of utilities that distributed more than 4,000,000 megawatt-hours in the previous fiscal year.
  • Transmission Organizations must allow aggregator bidding regardless of any State law or State commission prohibition on who may bid into organized wholesale electric markets.
  • The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission must issue a rule implementing these requirements within 1 year of enactment.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Richard J. Durbin’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • SIMMONS HANLY CONROY LLC $19,133
  • THE GORI LAW FIRM $18,300
  • CLIFFORD LAW OFFICES PC $17,750
  • POWER ROGERS & SMITH LLP $17,300
  • MAUNE RAICHLE HARTLEY FRENCH & MUDD $14,638

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Richard J. Durbin → · Outside spending →

Actions (3)
  1. Apr 15, 2026 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 119-366. · senate
  2. Nov 18, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text: CR S8207) · senate
  3. Nov 18, 2025 Introduced in Senate

More bills on these subjects (8)

Other bills that carry the most legislative subjects in common with this one (topical discovery — distinct from the procedural related bills above).

  • HR 604 — REDUCE Act (shares 5 subjects)
  • HR 7567 — Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 (shares 4 subjects)
  • HR 7126 — SECURE Minerals Act of 2026 (shares 4 subjects)
  • S 3659 — SECURE Minerals Act of 2026 (shares 4 subjects)
  • S 2296 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 3838 — Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (shares 3 subjects)
  • S 350 — Wildfire Emergency Act of 2025 (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 191 — Inflation Reduction Act of 2025 (shares 3 subjects)

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 7729 — SURGE Act of 2026 · Introduced Feb 26, 2026 · Cong. 119 72%
  • S 3287 — Fair Allocation of Interstate Rates Act · Introduced Dec 1, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 604 — REDUCE Act · Introduced Jan 22, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 8568 — Lowering Utility Bills Act · Introduced Apr 29, 2026 · Cong. 119 68%
  • HR 9340 — Ratepayer Protection Act · Passed House Sep 30, 2026 · Cong. 119 68%
  • HR 6336 — Fair Allocation of Interstate Rates Act · Introduced Dec 1, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in Senate · Nov 18, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Committee action

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Meetings where this bill was on the agenda

Full text

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

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). <all>

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