Bill Text: TX SB2259 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the legislature's goals for baseload electric generating capacity.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB2259 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2259-Introduced.html
By: Blanco | S.B. No. 2259 | |
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relating to the legislature's goals for baseload electric | ||
generating capacity. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.904(a), Utilities Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) It is the intent of the legislature that by January 1, | ||
2015, an additional 5,000 megawatts of generating capacity from | ||
renewable energy technologies will have been installed in this | ||
state. The cumulative installed renewable capacity in this state | ||
shall total 5,880 megawatts by January 1, 2015, and the commission | ||
shall establish a target of 10,000 megawatts of installed renewable | ||
capacity by January 1, 2025. The cumulative installed renewable | ||
capacity in this state shall total 2,280 megawatts by January 1, | ||
2007, 3,272 megawatts by January 1, 2009, 4,264 megawatts by | ||
January 1, 2011, 5,256 megawatts by January 1, 2013, and 5,880 | ||
megawatts by January 1, 2015. Of the renewable energy technology | ||
generating capacity installed to meet the goal of this subsection | ||
after September 1, 2005, the commission shall establish a target of | ||
having at least 500 megawatts of capacity from a renewable energy | ||
technology other than a source using wind energy. In addition to | ||
the other goals in this subsection, it is the intent of the | ||
legislature that by January 1, 2030, an additional 5,000 megawatts | ||
of baseload generating capacity from dispatchable or unvarying | ||
renewable energy technologies will have been installed in this | ||
state. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |