Bill Text: TX HB161 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced

Texas House Bill 161 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to interconnection of transmission facilities in ERCOT with transmission facilities outside of ERCOT.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-08 - Filed [HB161 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB161-Introduced.html

	87S10242 CXP-D

	By: Reynolds	H.B. No. 161



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to interconnection of transmission facilities in ERCOT
	with transmission facilities outside of ERCOT.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is
	amended by adding Section 39.166 to read as follows:
	Sec. 39.166. REQUIRED INTERCONNECTION WITH TRANSMISSION
	FACILITIES OUTSIDE OF ERCOT. (a) The commission shall identify
	transmission facilities in ERCOT that may be interconnected with
	transmission facilities outside of ERCOT for the purpose of
	allowing federal regulation of transmission service and wholesale
	power sales in ERCOT.
	(b) Notwithstanding any other law, the commission shall
	require an electric utility, municipally owned utility, or electric
	cooperative that owns a transmission facility identified by the
	commission under Subsection (a) to make requests, obtain approvals,
	enter into contracts, and construct facilities as necessary to
	interconnect the facility with a transmission facility outside of
	ERCOT.
	SECTION 2. Not later than November 1, 2022, the Public
	Utility Commission of Texas shall examine the laws and rules
	governing electric utilities in this state to determine how Section
	39.166, Utilities Code, as added by this Act, may affect the
	application of those laws and rules and shall adopt recommendations
	for legislative and administrative action as necessary to implement
	that section as effectively as practicable.
	SECTION 3. (a) Section 39.166, Utilities Code, as added by
	this Act, takes effect September 1, 2023.
	(b) Section 2 of this Act takes effect on the 91st day after
	the last day of the legislative session.