Bill Text: TX HB4542 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 4542

Bill Title: Relating to the compensation of a distributed renewable generation owner in certain areas outside of ERCOT.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB4542 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4542-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Moody (Senate Sponsor - Blanco)	H.B. No. 4542
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 2023;
	May 15, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Business &
	Commerce; May 21, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:
	Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 21, 2023, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote




	COMMITTEE VOTE


	YeaNayAbsentPNV
	SchwertnerX
	KingX
	BirdwellX
	CampbellX
	CreightonX
	JohnsonX
	KolkhorstX
	MenéndezX
	MiddletonX
	NicholsX
	ZaffiriniX

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the compensation of a distributed renewable generation
	owner in certain areas outside of ERCOT.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 39.554(f), Utilities Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(f) Unless the commission approves an alternative method
	for compensating a distributed renewable generation owner for
	electricity generated by distributed renewable generation or a
	qualifying facility, for [~~For~~] a distributed renewable generation
	owner that chooses interconnection through a single meter under
	Subsection (e):
	(1) the amount of electricity the owner generates
	through distributed renewable generation or a qualifying facility
	for a given billing period offsets the owner's consumption for that
	billing period; and
	(2) any electricity the owner generates through
	distributed renewable generation or a qualifying facility that
	exceeds the owner's consumption for a given billing period shall be
	credited to the owner under Subsection (g).
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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