Bill Text: TX HB1570 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the determination of the amount of energy available for sale from a clean energy project to a wholesale power purchaser.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-25 - Referred to State Affairs [HB1570 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1570-Introduced.html
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By: Lewis | H.B. No. 1570 |
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relating to the determination of the amount of energy available for | ||
sale from a clean energy project to a wholesale power purchaser. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 39.159 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 39.159. DETERMINATION OF ENERGY AVAILABLE IN WHOLESALE | ||
POWER PURCHASE FROM CLEAN ENERGY PROJECT. (a) In this section, | ||
"clean energy project" has the meaning assigned by Section 120.001, | ||
Natural Resources Code. | ||
(b) The commission by rule shall require that the Electric | ||
Reliability Council of Texas, or another independent organization | ||
certified under Section 39.151, in determining the total amount of | ||
energy that is available for sale from a clean energy project to a | ||
wholesale power purchaser, ensure that the energy: | ||
(1) is measured by the Carbon Management Advisory | ||
Board as having been produced by the clean energy project's | ||
facility; and | ||
(2) is not netted against any market power purchases | ||
that have been procured or delivered to the interconnection point | ||
for the operations of other commercial loads within the facility. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |