Reliable Power Act

## Summary of HR 3616: Reliable Power Act This bill requires the organization in charge of keeping the nation's electric grid reliable (the North American Electric Reliability Corporation) to check every year whether there will be enough electricity generated to keep the power system running dependably. If that organization finds there isn't enough power generation, it must alert the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which then notifies other government agencies like the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency. After that alert, any federal agency working on new rules that affect power plants must send those rules to FERC for review before making them final. Those agencies cannot finalize their rules unless FERC determines the rules won't seriously hurt the power system's ability to keep the lights on.

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