Power Plant Reliability Act of 2025
Passed first chamber: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Passed first chamber
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 5
- Latest action
- Dec 17, 2025
What it does
Power Plant Reliability Act of 2025 This bill modifies the process that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) uses to determine, upon a complaint from a state commission, whether a public utility (i.e., power plant) must remain open because the retirement of the power plant will make the bulk power system unreliable, including by allowing transmission organizations to also file complaints with FERC. If FERC finds that any interstate service of any public utility is inadequate or insufficient, or is likely to become inadequate or insufficient within five years of receiving such complaint, then FERC must determine the proper, adequate, or sufficient service to be furnished through…
Official summary · Reported to House · Sep 23, 2025
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