Smart Meter Data Privacy Protection Act

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Introduced

In Committee

Passed One Chamber

Passed Both Chambers

Signed into Law

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Protects your smart meter data from being sold by certain electric companies.

This bill would protect the private energy use data collected by your smart meter. It would stop certain electric companies from selling or using your personal energy information for commercial reasons. If a company breaks these rules, you would get a credit on your electric bill.

What Would Change

Currently, certain state-regulated electric companies that are not fully owned by U.S. persons can use, sell, or make money from your smart meter data without specific federal restrictions or penalties. This bill would stop these companies from using your personal energy data for commercial purposes. If they misuse your data, they would have to credit your bill by 3 times the revenue they made from that misuse, and they couldn't charge other customers for that cost.

Key Provisions

Prohibits certain electric companies from selling or using your smart meter data for commercial purposes.
Requires these companies to credit your bill by 3 times the revenue if they misuse your data.
Prevents companies from passing on the cost of these bill credits to other customers.
Empowers the Federal Trade Commission to enforce these new data privacy rules.
Lets state attorneys general take legal action to protect residents from data misuse.
Requires certain electric companies to send annual reports to the Federal Trade Commission about how they use and share customer data.

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HR 10284 · 119th Congress · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 9/10

Smart Meter Data Privacy Protection Act

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