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S 2384 114th Congress Senate

Ratepayer Fairness Act of 2015

Official title: A bill to amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to provide for the consideration by State regulatory authorities and nonregulated electric u… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to provide for the consideration by State regulatory authorities and nonregulated electric utilities of whether subsidies should be provided for the deployment, construction, maintenance, or operation of a customer-side technology.

Introduced: December 10, 2015 See on congress.gov
Energy Electric power generation and transmissionPublic utilities and utility ratesState and local government operations
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Dec 10, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Dec 10, 2015
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 Latest action December 10, 2015

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

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Ratepayer Fairness Act of 2015

This bill amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to require a state regulatory authority and a nonregulated electric utility (entities), to the extent that they allow electric utility rates to include charges that subsidize customer-side technology, to consider whether that subsidy would:

  • result in benefits predominately enjoyed by only the users of the customer-side technology;
  • shift costs of a customer-side technology to electricity consumers that do not use it, particularly in cases in which disparate economic or resource conditions exist among the electricity consumers cross-subsidizing the customer-side technology;
  • negatively affect resource utilization, fuel diversity, grid reliability, or grid security;
  • give any unfair competitive advantage to market the customer-side technology, including an analysis of whether a state regulatory authority has uncovered fraudulent customer-side technology marketing practices; and
  • be necessary to fulfill an obligation to serve electric consumers.

The bill sets deadlines within which the entities must set a hearing date to consider and subsequently determine the subsidization of customer-side technology.

 Related & companion bills 3
  • HR 8 Related bill North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015
  • S 613 Reintroduced Bill Ratepayer Fairness Act
  • HR 4232 Identical bill Ratepayer Fairness Act of 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2384: Ratepayer Fairness Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2384/
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"S. 2384: Ratepayer Fairness Act of 2015." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2384/.
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S. 2384, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2384/.
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