Bill Text: TX HB4542 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the compensation of a distributed renewable generation owner in certain areas outside of ERCOT.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB4542 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4542-Introduced.html

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88R11988 JXC-F
By: Moody H.B. No. 4542

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the compensation of a distributed renewable generation
owner in certain areas outside of ERCOT.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.554(f), Utilities Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(f) Unless the commission approves an alternative method
for compensating a distributed renewable generation owner for
electricity generated by distributed renewable generation or a
qualifying facility, for [For] a distributed renewable generation
owner that chooses interconnection through a single meter under
Subsection (e):
(1) the amount of electricity the owner generates
through distributed renewable generation or a qualifying facility
for a given billing period offsets the owner's consumption for that
billing period; and
(2) any electricity the owner generates through
distributed renewable generation or a qualifying facility that
exceeds the owner's consumption for a given billing period shall be
credited to the owner under Subsection (g).
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.