Bill Text: TX HB3059 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the exclusion of certain facilities from load shedding participation during a rolling blackout.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-19 - Referred to State Affairs [HB3059 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3059-Introduced.html
| 87R11866 JXC-D | ||
| By: Guerra | H.B. No. 3059 | |
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| relating to the exclusion of certain facilities from load shedding | ||
| participation 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 38.0721 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.0721. EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN FACILITIES FROM ROLLING | ||
| BLACKOUT. The commission by rule shall require each electric | ||
| utility, municipally owned utility, and electric cooperative to | ||
| exclude any circuits that provide power to the following facilities | ||
| from participation in the utility's or cooperative's attempt to | ||
| shed load in response to a rolling blackout initiated by an | ||
| independent organization certified under Section 39.151 or another | ||
| reliability council or power pool in which the utility or | ||
| cooperative operates: | ||
| (1) a facility necessary to provide water to wholesale | ||
| customers; and | ||
| (2) a facility necessary to provide natural gas | ||
| transmission services. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
