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• Creates standards for high-quality, affordable electricity service
• Provides funds for universal service, low-income assistance, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and worker retention/retraining programs
• Enables consumers to use local governments to aggregate into more powerful buying groups
• Requires all power plants to meet the same standards for pollution
• Separates regulated companies and competitive companies, eliminating cross-subsidies, self-dealing and other abuses of holding companies
• Limits the market share of power plant owners
• Protects consumer privacy

Sponsors:  Reps. Sherrod Brown (Ohio); Karen McCarthy (Missouri); Marcy Kaptur and Stephanie Tubbs Jones (Ohio); William Delahunt and John Tierney (Massachusetts)

Source: Public Citizen