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HR 3632 · in committee · significant

Power Plant Reliability Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • This bill lets FERC order power plants to stay open for up to 5 years if closing them would make the electrical grid unreliable.
  • Power plant owners, state utility commissions, and grid operators are affected by new reporting and compliance requirements.
  • Plant owners must give 5 years' notice before retirement; FERC sets rates to compensate for keeping plants open.

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  1. 01

    How should FERC balance keeping aging power plants open against transitioning to renewable energy sources that states have committed to?

  2. 02

    Who bears the cost when FERC orders a plant to stay open—ratepayers, taxpayers, plant owners, or some combination—and is that fair?

  3. 03

    What evidence should FERC require to prove that closing a plant would actually harm grid reliability versus other solutions like upgraded transmission lines?

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H. Morgan Griffith

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Introduced 2025-12-17

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-12-17 · senate · IntroReferral

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

  2. 2025-12-16 · house · Floor

    Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

  3. 2025-12-16 · house · Floor

    On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 222 - 202 (Roll no. 342). (text: CR H5927-5928)

  4. 2025-12-16 · Floor

    Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 222 - 202 (Roll no. 342). (text: CR H5927-5928)

  5. 2025-12-16 · house · Floor

    On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 207 - 218 (Roll no. 341).

  6. 2025-12-16 · house · Floor

    Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5934-5935)

  7. 2025-12-16 · house · Floor

    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. 2025-12-16 · house · Floor

    The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX.

  9. 2025-12-16 · house · Floor

    Ms. Scholten moved to recommit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. (text: CR H5933)

  10. 2025-12-16 · house · Floor

    The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.

  11. 2025-12-16 · house · Floor

    DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 3632.

  12. 2025-12-16 · house · Floor

    Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4776, H.R. 1366, H.R. 845, H.R. 3616, H.R. 3632 and H.R. 4371. The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 4776, under a structured rule and H.R. 1366, H.R. 845, H.R. 3616, H.R. 3632, and H.R. 4371 under a closed rule. The resolution provides one motion to recommit on each bill.

  13. 2025-12-16 · house · Floor

    Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 951. (consideration: CR H5927-5933)

  14. 2025-12-16 · house · Floor

    Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 951 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4776, H.R. 1366, H.R. 845, H.R. 3616, H.R. 3632 and H.R. 4371. The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 4776, under a structured rule and H.R. 1366, H.R. 845, H.R. 3616, H.R. 3632, and H.R. 4371 under a closed rule. The resolution provides one motion to recommit on each bill.

  15. 2025-11-25 · house · Committee

    Supplemental report filed by the Committee on Energy and Commerce, H. Rept. 119-307, Part II.

  16. 2025-11-25 · Committee

    Supplemental report filed by the Committee on Energy and Commerce, H. Rept. 119-307, Part II.

  17. 2025-09-23 · house · Calendars

    Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 261.

  18. 2025-09-23 · house · Committee

    Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-307.

  19. 2025-09-23 · Committee

    Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-307.

  20. 2025-06-25 · house · Committee

    Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 25 - 21.

  21. 2025-06-25 · house · Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  22. 2025-06-05 · house · Committee

    Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by the Yeas and Nays: 15 - 14.

  23. 2025-06-05 · house · Committee

    Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  24. 2025-06-03 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.

  25. 2025-05-29 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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