Sec. 111. Demand efficiency technology innovation
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Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary of Energy shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a report describing— recommendations for improving the modeling, operational, and planning practices used for the bulk electric system in order to better account for the integration of demand efficiency technologies and ensuring increased resiliency, mitigating peak system demand, and avoiding or deferring transmission investments; and an assessment of existing regional and interregional transmission planning and siting processes and whether such processes are adequate with respect to the deployment of demand efficiency technologies.
The report under subsection
(a)may be produced in consultation and coordination with the National Academy of Sciences. In this section, the term demand efficiency technologies includes— advanced metering infrastructure that records electricity use at defined intervals, ranging from hourly to real-time and provides data to electric utilities and customers, and which may include 2-way communications and instantaneous data transmission; behind-the-meter smart devices with aggregation and control capabilities, which may include thermostats, heat pumps, lighting controls, electric vehicle chargers, and other appliances that can be equipped with communications and control capabilities; power flow control and voltage management equipment and methods that allow grid operators to adjust remotely and in real time the amount of electricity flowing and manage the voltage on transmission lines; dynamic line rating technologies and methods that can be used to determine the maximum power flow capacity and real-time constraints and conditions on a transmission line; and dynamic transformer rating technologies and methods that allow electric companies and grid operators to understand the real-time operating conditions of transformers.