Bill Text: TX HB64 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to interconnection of transmission facilities in ERCOT with transmission facilities outside of ERCOT.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-09-14 - Filed [HB64 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB64-Introduced.html
| By: Reynolds | H.B. No. 64 | |
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| relating to interconnection of transmission facilities in ERCOT | ||
| with transmission facilities outside of ERCOT. | ||
| 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. REQUIRED INTERCONNECTION WITH TRANSMISSION | ||
| FACILITIES OUTSIDE OF ERCOT. (a) The commission shall identify | ||
| transmission facilities in ERCOT that may be interconnected with | ||
| transmission facilities outside of ERCOT for the purpose of | ||
| allowing federal regulation of transmission service and wholesale | ||
| power sales in ERCOT. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other law, the commission shall | ||
| require an electric utility, municipally owned utility, or electric | ||
| cooperative that owns a transmission facility identified by the | ||
| commission under Subsection (a) to make requests, obtain approvals, | ||
| enter into contracts, and construct facilities as necessary to | ||
| interconnect the facility with a transmission facility outside of | ||
| ERCOT. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than November 1, 2022, the Public | ||
| Utility Commission of Texas shall examine the laws and rules | ||
| governing electric utilities in this state to determine how Section | ||
| 39.166, Utilities Code, as added by this Act, may affect the | ||
| application of those laws and rules and shall adopt recommendations | ||
| for legislative and administrative action as necessary to implement | ||
| that section as effectively as practicable. | ||
| SECTION 3. (a) Section 39.166, Utilities Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| (b) Section 2 of this Act takes effect on the 91st day after | ||
| the last day of the legislative session. | ||
