Bill Text: TX HB2786 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to load shedding participation for certain customers during a rolling blackout.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-17 - Referred to State Affairs [HB2786 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2786-Introduced.html
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| By: Vasut | H.B. No. 2786 | |
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| relating to load shedding participation for certain customers | ||
| during a rolling blackout. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 38, Utilities Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 38.074 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.074. EXCLUSION OF CRITICAL CUSTOMERS FROM ROLLING | ||
| BLACKOUTS. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Assisted living facility" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 247.002, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (2) "Critical customer" means a customer for whom | ||
| electric service is considered crucial for the protection or | ||
| maintenance of public safety, including a: | ||
| (A) hospital facility licensed under Chapter | ||
| 241, Health and Safety Code; | ||
| (B) nursing facility, assisted living facility, | ||
| or facility that provides hospice services; | ||
| (C) police or fire station; or | ||
| (D) critical water and wastewater facility. | ||
| (3) "Critical industrial or residential customer" | ||
| means: | ||
| (A) an industrial customer for whom an | ||
| interruption or suspension of electric service would create a | ||
| dangerous or life-threatening condition on the customer's | ||
| premises; or | ||
| (B) a residential customer who has a person | ||
| permanently residing in the customer's home who has been diagnosed | ||
| by a physician as: | ||
| (i) having a serious medical condition that | ||
| requires an electric-powered medical device or electric heating or | ||
| cooling to prevent the impairment of a major life function through a | ||
| significant deterioration or exacerbation of the person's medical | ||
| condition; or | ||
| (ii) being dependent upon an | ||
| electric-powered medical device to sustain life. | ||
| (4) "Hospice services" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 142.001, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (5) "Nursing facility" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 242.301, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (b) Except as provided by Subsections (c) and (d), the | ||
| commission by rule shall require each electric utility, municipally | ||
| owned utility, and electric cooperative that is subject to a | ||
| rolling blackout initiated by an independent organization | ||
| certified under Section 39.151 to: | ||
| (1) exclude any parts of the utility's or | ||
| cooperative's distribution system that provide power to a critical | ||
| customer from participation in the utility's or cooperative's | ||
| attempt to shed load; and | ||
| (2) rotate curtailment of all other parts of the | ||
| distribution system so that no customer is subject to an outage of | ||
| more than: | ||
| (A) 24 hours; or | ||
| (B) 12 hours during an extreme weather emergency, | ||
| as defined by Section 39.101. | ||
| (c) The commission may allow an electric utility, | ||
| municipally owned utility, or electric cooperative to maintain an | ||
| outage for more than 24 hours for a part of the distribution system | ||
| if necessary to supply critical customers. | ||
| (d) The commission may require that an electric utility, | ||
| municipally owned utility, or electric cooperative exclude a | ||
| critical industrial or residential customer from load shedding | ||
| under Subsection (b)(1). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
