Bill Text: TX HB2049 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to a qualifying cogeneration facility's ability to sell electric energy to multiple purchasers.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB2049 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2049-Enrolled.html
 
 
  H.B. No. 2049
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to a qualifying cogeneration facility's ability to sell
  electric energy to multiple purchasers.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 31.002(13), Utilities Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
               (13)  "Qualifying cogenerator" and "qualifying small
  power producer" have the meanings assigned those terms by 16 U.S.C.
  Sections 796(18)(C) and 796(17)(D). A qualifying cogenerator that
  provides electricity to a [the] purchaser of the cogenerator's
  thermal output is not for that reason considered to be a retail
  electric provider or a power generation company.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 37, Utilities Code, is
  amended by adding Section 37.0521 to read as follows:
         Sec. 37.0521.  EXCEPTION FOR RETAIL SALES BY CERTAIN
  QUALIFYING COGENERATORS.  (a)  Notwithstanding Section 37.001(3), a
  qualifying cogenerator may sell electric energy at retail to more
  than one purchaser of the cogenerator's thermal output.
         (b)  Selling electric energy at retail to more than one
  purchaser does not, as a result of that sale, subject a qualifying
  cogenerator to regulation as
  :
               (1)  a retail electric provider or power generation
  company; or
               (2)  a retail electric utility under Chapter 37.
         (c)  This section does not apply to sales in an area:
               (1)  in which customer choice has not been adopted and
  where a municipally owned utility or an electric cooperative is
  certificated to provide retail electric utility service; or
               (2)  that is served by an electric utility that
  operates solely outside of ERCOT.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 2049 was passed by the House on May 4,
  2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 136, Nays 0, 2 present, not
  voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
  No. 2049 on May 22, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 147, Nays 0,
  2 present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 2049 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 17, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
  0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor       
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