Reliable Power Act
Sponsored by Troy Balderson
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Dec 18, 2025
The Reliable Power Act requires the North American Electric Reliability Corporation to conduct annual long-term assessments of electric power reliability in the bulk-power system. If the organization determines the system lacks sufficient generation capacity to maintain reliability, it must notify FERC, which then alerts the Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, and other relevant federal agencies. When such a determination is made, federal agencies proposing regulations affecting generation resources must submit them to FERC for review and comment. Federal agencies cannot finalize these regulations unless FERC determines they will not likely have a significant negative impact on the bulk-power system's ability to supply sufficient electricity for adequate reliability.
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Reliable Power Act This bill directs the electric reliability organization (i.e., the North American Electric Reliability Corporation) to conduct annual long-term assessments of the reliability of electric power in the bulk-power system. It also establishes a process for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to review federal regulations before they are finalized if the electric reliability organization finds that the system is at risk of not having sufficient electric generation to maintain reliability. If the electric reliability organization finds that the system does not have sufficient generation to maintain reliability, it must notify FERC that the bulk-power system is in a state of generation inadequacy. FERC must then notify the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and any other appropriate federal agencies of the generation inadequacy. Upon receiving the notice, the federal agency must provide proposed regulations that affect any generation resource in the bulk-power system to FERC for review and comment. If applicable, FERC must provide recommendations to modify the regulations. Federal agencies may not finalize such a regulation until FERC finds that it will not be likely to have a significant negative impact on the ability of the bulk-power system to supply sufficient electric energy necessary to maintain an adequate level of reliability.