Bill Text: TX HB3624 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to certain distributed electricity resources.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-12 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3624 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3624-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to certain distributed electricity resources.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-12 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3624 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3624-Introduced.html
By: Deshotel | H.B. No. 3624 |
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Relating to electricity customer rights to distributed energy | ||
storage. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 35.152, Utilities Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 35.152. (a) Electric energy storage equipment or | ||
facilities that are intended to be used to sell energy or ancillary | ||
services at wholesale are generation assets. | ||
(b) The owner or operator of electric energy storage | ||
equipment or facilities that are generation assets under Subsection | ||
(a) is a power generation company and is required to register under | ||
Section 39.351(a). The owner or operator of the equipment or | ||
facilities is entitled to: | ||
(1) interconnect the equipment or facilities; | ||
(2) obtain transmission service for the equipment or | ||
facilities; and | ||
(3) use the equipment or facilities to sell | ||
electricity or ancillary services at wholesale in a manner | ||
consistent with the provisions of this title and commission rules | ||
applicable to a power generation company or an exempt wholesale | ||
generator. | ||
(c) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), this section does not | ||
affect a determination made by the commission in a final order | ||
issued before December 31, 2010. | ||
(d) Subsection (b) does not require a municipally owned | ||
utility or an electric cooperative that owns or operates electric | ||
energy storage equipment or facilities described by Subsection (a) | ||
to register as a power generation company under Section 39.351(a). | ||
(e) The owner or operator of distributed renewable | ||
generation and distributed energy storage equipment or facilities, | ||
as defined by Section 39.916, that are installed on the retail | ||
electric customer's side of the meter are entitled to use the | ||
equipment or facilities to sell electricity or ancillary services | ||
at wholesale in manner consistent with the provisions of this | ||
title. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter Z, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 39.918 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 39.918. CUSTOMER RIGHT TO DISTRIBUTED ENERGY STORAGE. | ||
(a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Distributed renewable generation" means electric | ||
generation with a capacity of not more than 2,000 kilowatts | ||
provided by a renewable energy technology, as defined by Section | ||
39.904, that is installed on a retail electric customer's side of | ||
the meter. | ||
(2) "Distributed energy storage" means electric | ||
energy storage with a capacity of not more than 2,000 kilowatts that | ||
is installed on a retail electric customer's side of the meter. | ||
(3) "Owner" means: | ||
(A) an owner of distributed renewable | ||
generation; | ||
(B) an owner of distributed storage; | ||
(C) an owner of distributed renewable generation | ||
and distributed storage; or | ||
(D) a retail electric customer on whose side of | ||
the meter distributed renewable generation and/or distributed | ||
energy storage is installed and operated, regardless of whether the | ||
customer takes ownership of the distributed renewable generation; | ||
or | ||
(E) a person who by contract is assigned | ||
ownership rights to energy produced from distributed renewable | ||
generation and/or distributed storage located at the premises of | ||
the customer on the customer's side of the meter. | ||
(b) An electric utility shall allow an owner to the use of | ||
owner-supplied, UL-certified devices designed to isolate and | ||
disconnect household loads on the retail electric customer's side | ||
of the meter. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |