Bill Text: TX HB4559 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the load shed protocols within the ERCOT power region; authorizing a study.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-29 - Referred to State Affairs [HB4559 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4559-Introduced.html
By: Anchia | H.B. No. 4559 |
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relating to the load shed protocols within the ERCOT power region; | ||
authorizing a study. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The Public Utility Commission of Texas shall work with | ||
the independent organization certified under Section 39.151, | ||
Utilities Code, for the ERCOT power region to: | ||
(1) study and provide an analysis of load shed | ||
protocols implemented by the independent organization during | ||
extreme weather events, to determine whether residential elderly | ||
customers, low income residential customers, or residential | ||
customers with high risk medical conditions, experience harmful | ||
effects from the protocols; and | ||
(2) consider changes that may be required to improve | ||
reliability of the electric grid system, including reducing rolling | ||
blackouts during extreme weather conditions. | ||
(b) In conducting the analysis under Subsection (a) of this | ||
section, the commission must; | ||
(1) seek stakeholder input and consider all generation | ||
resources, including distributed generation, electric storage, | ||
demand response, energy efficiency, and power generation; and | ||
(2) provide an opportunity for a public hearing and | ||
the submission of public comment. | ||
(c) The commission shall submit the study described by | ||
Subsection (a) to the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house | ||
of representatives, and the members of the legislature not later | ||
than December 1, 2021. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |