Bill Text: TX HB4728 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of an independent organization certified for the ERCOT power region to require information from and registration by certain facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-04-19 - Left pending in committee [HB4728 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4728-Introduced.html

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88R9931 JXC-D
By: Dean H.B. No. 4728

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of an independent organization certified
for the ERCOT power region to require information from and
registration by certain facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is
amended by adding Section 39.166 to read as follows:
Sec. 39.166. LARGE ELECTRICAL LOADS. The independent
organization certified under Section 39.151 for the ERCOT power
region may require a person seeking to receive retail electric
service for a facility that the organization anticipates will
require a large electrical load to:
(1) provide to the organization any information about
the person or the existing or future load of the facility that is
reasonably necessary for the purposes described by Section
39.151(a), including telemetry of the facility's real-time
electrical load; and
(2) register the facility with the organization.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.