All Roll Calls
Yes: 218 • No: 207
HR3628119th CongressWALLET
State Planning for Reliability and Affordability Act
Sponsored By: Representative Evans (CO)
Passed House
Summary
Requires state utility plans to secure enough long-duration, on-site-fueled or contracted generation to keep power reliable for a 10-year horizon. The bill ties integrated resource planning to fuel sufficiency, continuous operation during emergencies, and essential grid services like frequency and voltage support.
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- Families and electric consumers: Aims to lower blackout risk and protect affordability by prioritizing generation that can run continuously for 30 days and provide frequency and voltage support.
- State regulatory authorities: Would require regulators to start formal consideration of the new reliability standard within 1 year and complete decisions within 2 years.
- State-regulated electric utilities: Utilities using integrated resource planning must include measures ensuring access to "reliable generation facilities" that have on-site fuel or contractual fuel supplies for 30 days and can operate in severe weather.
- Oversight: Directs the Government Accountability Office to report to Congress within 1 year on whether prior integrated resource plans ensured reliable, stable, and affordable electric service.
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Stronger state planning for reliable power
If enacted, this would set a new reliability rule in utility planning. Utilities that use integrated resource planning would need to plan for reliable power over 10 years. They would keep or buy power from plants that can run for 30 days straight. Those plants would need 30 days of on-site fuel or fuel contracts, work in emergencies and severe weather, and provide frequency and voltage support. State regulators would need to start considering this standard within 1 year of enactment and decide within 2 years. A state would be exempt from these timing rules if it already implemented a similar standard, held a proceeding, or its legislature voted on it in the past 3 years.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Evans (CO)
CO • R
Cosponsors
Langworthy
NY • R
Sponsored 5/29/2025
Roll Call Votes
house vote • 12/11/2025
On Passage
Yes: 218 • No: 207