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H.R. 3632119th CongressEnergy
Power Plant Reliability Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) · 4 active : 4 Republicans
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate10 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedDec 16, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govPower Plant Reliability Act of 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.
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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.
How the projections held up
Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.
House
On PassagePassed222 yea, 202 nayDecember 16, 2025 · Roll call 342
| BandBand before the vote | VotedVoted yea or nay | BrokeBroke with party | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swing | 49 | 6 | 12% |
| Middle | 255 | 2 | 1% |
| Entrenched | 115 | 2 | 2% |
| All |
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Energy · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Alternative and renewable resources
- Congressional oversight
- Dams and canals
- Electric power generation and transmission
- Energy prices
- Energy storage, supplies, demand
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 10Swing 70–100
- 70Middle 30–70
- 20Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
4 activeShow all 4 cosponsors
- Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA-1)
- Jay Obernolte (R-CA-23)
- Robert F. Onder (R-MO-3)
- Carol D. Miller (R-WV-1)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
