Govoptes

HR 3632 · Power Plant Reliability Act of 2025

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Introduced
May 29, 2025
Latest action
Dec 17, 2025
Sponsor
Rep. H. Morgan Griffith [R-VA-9]
Policy area
Energy
Cosponsors
4

Summary

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 an order, rule, or regulation (order). The bill specifies that FERC may order a power plant to remain open for up to five years. Any affected state commission, transmission organization, or power plant may request that FERC extend such order. A FERC order must determine (1) any rate or charge necessary to provide compensation for the additional costs of the service, and (2) the cost allocation of any rate or charge. A power plant owner or operator must notify FERC and affected state commissions or transmission organizations at least five years before any planned retirement of a unit of an electric generating facility except in the case of an emergency or similar event that renders a unit inoperable. The bill exempts from federal, state, and local environmental laws and regulations any action taken by a generating facility to comply with such orders.

Recent actions

  1. Dec 17, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  2. Dec 16, 2025 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  3. Dec 16, 2025 On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 222 - 202 (Roll no. 342). (text: CR H5927-5928)
  4. Dec 16, 2025 Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 222 - 202 (Roll no. 342). (text: CR H5927-5928)
  5. Dec 16, 2025 On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 207 - 218 (Roll no. 341).
  6. Dec 16, 2025 Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5934-5935)
  7. Dec 16, 2025 POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate H.R. 3632, the Chair put the question on motion to recommit and announced the noes had prevailed. Ms. Scholten demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings until a time to be announced.
  8. Dec 16, 2025 The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX.

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