Bill Text: TX SB1295 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the provision of information regarding distributed generation and certain electrical loads.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-28 - Left pending in committee [SB1295 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1295-Introduced.html

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88R10816 JXC-F
By: Schwertner S.B. No. 1295

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the provision of information regarding distributed
generation and certain electrical loads.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.9165, Utilities Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 39.9165. DISTRIBUTED GENERATION FACILITY REPORTING.
(a) In this section, "distributed generation facility"
[generation"] is an electrical generating facility, including an
energy storage facility, that:
(1) [may be located at a customer's point of delivery;
[(2)] is connected at a voltage less than 60
kilovolts; and
(2) is capable of being [(3) may be] connected in
parallel operation to the utility system.
(b) An independent organization certified under Section
39.151 may [shall] require an owner or operator of a distributed
generation facility operating in the power region served by the
independent organization to provide information about the
distributed generation facility, as specified by the independent
organization, to the owner's or operator's [to register with the
organization and] interconnecting electric cooperative,
municipally owned utility, or transmission and distribution
utility [information necessary for the interconnection of the
distributed generator].
(c) An independent organization certified under Section
39.151 may require each electric cooperative, municipally owned
utility, and transmission and distribution utility operating in the
power region served by the independent organization to provide to
the independent organization any information about distributed
generation facilities or distribution-connected loads in the
service territory of the electric cooperative, municipally owned
utility, or transmission and distribution utility that the
independent organization identifies as necessary for maintaining
system reliability.
(d) The commission may require an owner or operator of a
distributed generation facility or an electric cooperative,
municipally owned utility, or transmission and distribution
utility to provide the information described by Subsections (b) and
(c).
(e) The commission or an independent organization certified
under Section 39.151 may require information described by
Subsections (b) and (c) to be provided on an individual basis or on
an aggregated basis [This section does not apply to distributed
generation serving a residential property].
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2023.