Bill Text: TX HB2599 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to ownership and use of mobile batteries to restore electric service after a natural disaster in the ERCOT power region.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-17 - Referred to State Affairs [HB2599 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2599-Introduced.html
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| By: Paul | H.B. No. 2599 | |
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| relating to ownership and use of mobile batteries to restore | ||
| electric service after a natural disaster in the ERCOT power | ||
| region. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 35.151, Utilities Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 35.151. ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE. This subchapter | ||
| applies to the ownership or operation of electric energy storage | ||
| equipment or facilities that are intended to: | ||
| (1) provide energy or ancillary services at wholesale, | ||
| including electric energy storage equipment or facilities listed on | ||
| a power generation company's registration with the commission or, | ||
| for an exempt wholesale generator, on the generator's registration | ||
| with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; or | ||
| (2) provide reliable delivery of electric energy to | ||
| distribution customers after a natural disaster. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 35, Utilities Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 35.153 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 35.153. MOBILE BATTERIES FOR RESTORING SERVICE AFTER | ||
| NATURAL DISASTER. (a) In this section, "natural disaster" means a | ||
| tropical storm or hurricane, ice storm or snow storm, flood, or | ||
| other weather-related event that results in a widespread electric | ||
| power outage affecting distribution customers of transmission and | ||
| distribution utilities. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding a provision of this subtitle that | ||
| directly or indirectly prohibits a transmission and distribution | ||
| utility from owning or operating a generation asset, a transmission | ||
| and distribution utility, with prior approval of the commission, | ||
| may own and operate a mobile battery to provide electric energy to | ||
| restore service to distribution customers after a natural disaster. | ||
| (c) The commission shall adopt rules as necessary to | ||
| implement this section and establish criteria for approving the | ||
| ownership and operation of a mobile battery under this section. | ||
| SECTION 3. The Public Utility Commission of Texas shall | ||
| adopt rules required by Section 35.153, Utilities Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, as soon as practicable after the effective date of this | ||
| Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
