# 119-hr-604: REDUCE Act

119-hr-604, REDUCE Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Casten, Sean [D-IL-6] (D-IL); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-604
- Congress: 119
- Title: REDUCE Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-01-22
- Sponsor: Rep. Casten, Sean [D-IL-6] (D-IL)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Energy
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**Allow aggregators of retail customers to bid into organized wholesale electric markets.** This bill would force Transmission Organizations to accept bids from aggregators that combine customer demand flexibility and would preempt State rules that block who may bid. FERC would have 12 months to write a final rule to carry out the change. - Aggregators and customers: Aggregators that submit bids aggregating demand flexibility for customers of utilities that delivered more than 4 million megawatt-hours in the prior fiscal year could enter organized wholesale markets, creating new market access for those customers. - State regulators: State laws or commission orders that prohibit who may bid would be overridden when they stop aggregator participation, though market rules that themselves bar aggregator bidding remain controlling. - Market operators and FERC: Transmission Organizations must accept eligible aggregator bids when market rules allow it, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission would issue implementing rules within 12 months.

## Provisions PRIA read

- Open power markets to aggregators: benefit, medium. If enacted, transmission organizations would have to let aggregators of retail customers bid in wholesale power markets. It would apply only when aggregators combine demand from customers of utilities that distributed more than 4 million megawatt-hours in the prior fiscal year. This would apply eve…

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- 119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act
- 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act
- 119-hr-3971: Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act
- 119-hr-2725: Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025
- 119-hr-7853: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026
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## Sources
- [119-hr-604 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/604)

## Related
- [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977)
- [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973)
- [119-hr-3971: Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3971)
- [119-hr-2725: Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2725)
- [119-hr-7853: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7853)
- [119-hres-1058: Recognizing that it is the duty of the Federal Government to develop and implem…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hres-1058)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-604 (as of 2025-12-21).