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H.R. 3632House bill · 119th CongressIn the SenateEnergy

Power Plant Reliability Act of 2025

Sponsored byH. Morgan GriffithR-VA-9Introduced May 29, 2025Full text on congress.gov ↗

Latest action (Dec 17, 2025) — Received in the Senate and Read twice and on Energy and Natural Resources.

What it does

Congressional Research Service, Sep 23, 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.

Face Value

as passed the House
100Narrow

How much of this bill its name accounts for.

  • Every bill starts at100
  • Nothing counted against it: one area of law, and short enough that length doesn't register.

Face Value measures reach, not honesty. A big bill can be accurately named, and a low score is not an accusation — it means the contents reach further than any short title could describe. Count it yourself ↗ How this is worked out

What Congress did

2 recorded

  • decisive vote

    House · Dec 16, 2025

    Whether the bill passes the House. This is the vote most people mean.

    222 – 202

    Passed

    Every vote →

  • On

    House · Dec 16, 2025

    The minority party's last attempt to change the bill by sending it back to committee. It usually fails and is usually about forcing an awkward vote.

    207 – 218

    Failed

    Every vote →

Who lobbied on this

6 organizations

These organizations told Congress, in their own quarterly disclosures, that they were lobbying on this bill.

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