119th Congress
H.R. 10284

Limits how utilities use smart meter data

Bars state-regulated electric utilities from selling or sharing customers' smart meter data unless it is for billing, outages, grid reliability or similar uses, with the Federal Trade Commission enforcing.

  • Utilities could use smart meter data only for billing, outages, grid reliability and similar purposes
  • Each utility would report yearly to the Federal Trade Commission on what data it collected and shared
  • A customer whose data was misused would get a bill credit of three times the utility's revenue from it
  • State attorneys general could sue utilities for breaking the rules

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