1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ratepayer Fairness Act of 2017 . 2. Cross-Subsidization of Customer-Side Technology (a) Consideration of impact from cross-Subsidization of customer-Side technology Section 111(d) of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 ( 16 U.S.C. 2621(d) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (20) Consideration of impact from cross-subsidization of customer-side technology (A) Definition of customer-side technology In this paragraph, the term customer-side technology means a device connected to the electricity distribution system— (i) at, or on the customer side of, the meter; or (ii) that, if owned or operated by, or on behalf of, an electric utility, would otherwise be at, or on the customer side of, the meter. (B) Consideration Each State regulatory authority (with respect to each electric utility for which it has ratemaking authority) and each nonregulated electric utility shall consider, to the extent a State regulatory authority or nonregulated electric utility allows rates charged by any electric utility to include any cost, fee, or charge that directly or indirectly subsidizes the deployment, construction, maintenance, or operation of customer-side technology, whether subsidizing the deployment, construction, maintenance, or operation of a customer-side technology would— (i) result in benefits predominately enjoyed by only the users of the customer-side technology; (ii) shift costs of a customer-side technology to electricity consumers that do not use the customer-side technology, particularly in cases in which disparate economic or resource conditions exist among the electricity consumers cross-subsidizing the customer-side technology; (iii) negatively affect resource utilization, fuel diversity, grid reliability, or grid security