Bill Text: TX SB1279 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to cost recovery for certain demand-side electric energy resources in the competitive electric market.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-13 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB1279 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1279-Introduced.html
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By: Watson | S.B. No. 1279 |
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relating to cost recovery for certain demand-side electric energy | ||
resources in the competitive electric market. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.107(h), Utilities Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(h) The commission shall establish a nonbypassable | ||
surcharge for an electric utility or transmission and distribution | ||
utility to use to recover reasonable and necessary costs incurred | ||
in deploying advanced metering and meter information networks to | ||
residential customers and nonresidential customers other than | ||
those required by the independent system operator to have an | ||
interval data recorder meter, including costs incurred in deploying | ||
equipment needed for voluntary participation by residential or | ||
commercial customers in demand response programs through a third | ||
party or through a retail electric provider or other third party | ||
using automated load controls. The commission shall ensure that | ||
the nonbypassable surcharge reflects a deployment of advanced | ||
meters that is no more than one-third of the utility's total meters | ||
over each calendar year and shall ensure that the nonbypassable | ||
surcharge does not result in the utility recovering more than its | ||
actual, fully allocated costs for the utility's meter and meter | ||
information network, including costs associated with deploying | ||
systems described by this subsection. The expenses must be | ||
allocated to the customer classes receiving the services, based on | ||
the electric utility's most recently approved tariffs. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |