Bill Text: TX SB1295 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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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By: Schwertner | S.B. No. 1295 |
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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" | ||
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energy storage facility, that: | ||
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kilovolts; and | ||
(2) is capable of being [ |
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parallel operation to the utility system. | ||
(b) An independent organization certified under Section | ||
39.151 may [ |
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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 [ |
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municipally owned utility, or transmission and distribution | ||
utility [ |
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(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 [ |
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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. |