Bill Text: TX SB1278 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the responsibility for ancillary services costs incurred for the operation of intermittent generation resources.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-04-19 - Referred to State Affairs [SB1278 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1278-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the responsibility for ancillary services costs incurred for the operation of intermittent generation resources.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-04-19 - Referred to State Affairs [SB1278 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1278-Introduced.html
87R8893 JXC-F | ||
By: Hancock | S.B. No. 1278 |
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relating to the responsibility for ancillary services costs | ||
incurred for the operation of intermittent wind and solar | ||
resources. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 35.004(e), Utilities Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(e) The commission shall ensure that ancillary services | ||
necessary to facilitate the transmission of electric energy are | ||
available at reasonable prices with terms and conditions that are | ||
not unreasonably preferential, prejudicial, discriminatory, | ||
predatory, or anticompetitive. Ancillary services costs incurred | ||
by the ERCOT independent system operator to address reliability | ||
issues arising from the operation of intermittent wind and solar | ||
resources must be directly assigned by the ERCOT independent system | ||
operator to those resources. In this subsection, "ancillary | ||
services" means services necessary to facilitate the transmission | ||
of electric energy including load following, standby power, backup | ||
power, reactive power, and any other services as the commission may | ||
determine by rule. On the introduction of customer choice in the | ||
ERCOT power region, acquisition of generation-related ancillary | ||
services on a nondiscriminatory basis by the independent | ||
organization in ERCOT on behalf of entities selling electricity at | ||
retail shall be deemed to meet the requirements of this subsection. | ||
SECTION 2. The Public Utility Commission of Texas shall | ||
adopt any rules required to implement Section 35.004(e), Utilities | ||
Code, as amended by this Act, not later than January 1, 2022. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |