Bill Text: TX HB340 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to net metering for retail electric service customers and compensation for excess electricity generated by a retail electric customer's on-site generator.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-14 - Left pending in committee [HB340 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB340-Introduced.html
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By: Gallego | H.B. No. 340 |
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relating to net metering for retail electric service customers and | ||
compensation for excess electricity generated by a retail electric | ||
customer's on-site generator. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 39.922 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 39.922. NET METERING AND FAIR MARKET COMPENSATION OF | ||
ON-SITE ENERGY PRODUCTION FOR RETAIL CUSTOMERS. (a) In this | ||
section, "net metering service" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
111(d)(11) of the federal Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of | ||
1978 (16 U.S.C. Section 2621(d)(11)). | ||
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, the commission by rule | ||
shall require an electric utility, retail electric provider, | ||
electric cooperative, or municipally owned utility to offer net | ||
metering service to all retail customers of the utility, provider, | ||
or cooperative. The rules must provide that a retail customer is | ||
entitled to compensation at fair market value for metered | ||
electricity produced by the customer's eligible on-site generating | ||
facility and delivered to the electric transmission grid. | ||
(c) The commission by rule may establish standards an | ||
on-site generating facility must meet to be eligible for | ||
compensation under Subsection (b), including interconnection | ||
standards and standards for generating facility equipment. The | ||
standards must be designed so that small-scale generators located | ||
at residential and small business addresses are eligible for the | ||
compensation. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |