Changes rules for keeping power plants open

Lets the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order a power plant to stay open up to five years if its retirement could make the grid unreliable, and requires five years' notice before planned retirements.

• The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission could order a power plant to stay open for up to five years
• Plant owners must give at least five years' notice before a planned retirement, except in emergencies
• State commissions or grid operators could ask the commission to review whether a plant must stay open
• Actions taken to comply with such orders would be exempt from federal, state, and local environmental laws

Passed the House · Senate's turn

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