Bill Text: TX SB1278 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Engrossed
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-Engrossed.html
| By: Hancock | S.B. No. 1278 | |
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| relating to the responsibility for ancillary services costs | ||
| incurred for the operation of intermittent generation 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. The commission shall require, | ||
| consistent with cost-causation principles, intermittent generation | ||
| resources in the ERCOT power region to purchase ancillary services | ||
| and replacement power sufficient to manage net load variability. | ||
| 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. The | ||
| commission shall ensure that the rules do not unreasonably impede | ||
| or impair performance under contracts entered into before the | ||
| effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
