Bill Text: TX SB1351 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to demand-side electric energy resources in the competitive electric market.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-06 - Referred to State Affairs [SB1351 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1351-Engrossed.html
By: Carona | S.B. No. 1351 |
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relating to demand-side electric energy resources in the | ||
competitive electric market. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 39.160 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 39.160. LOAD PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS. The | ||
commission and the independent organization certified under | ||
Section 39.151 for each power region shall allow load participation | ||
in all energy markets for residential, commercial, and industrial | ||
customer classes, directly or through aggregators of retail | ||
customers, to the extent that load participation by each customer | ||
class complies with requirements of the independent organization | ||
for ensuring reliability and adequacy of the regional electric | ||
network. The load participation must be designed and implemented | ||
in a manner to increase market efficiency, competition, and | ||
customer benefits. | ||
SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 39.905, Utilities Code, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) The commission shall provide oversight and adopt rules | ||
and procedures to ensure that the utilities can achieve the goal of | ||
this section, including: | ||
(1) establishing an energy efficiency cost recovery | ||
factor for ensuring timely and reasonable cost recovery for utility | ||
expenditures made to satisfy the goal of this section; | ||
(2) establishing an incentive under Section 36.204 to | ||
reward utilities administering programs under this section that | ||
exceed the minimum goals established by this section; | ||
(3) providing a utility that is unable to establish an | ||
energy efficiency cost recovery factor in a timely manner due to a | ||
rate freeze with a mechanism to enable the utility to: | ||
(A) defer the costs of complying with this | ||
section; and | ||
(B) recover the deferred costs through an energy | ||
efficiency cost recovery factor on the expiration of the rate | ||
freeze period; | ||
(4) ensuring that the costs associated with programs | ||
provided under this section and any shareholder bonus awarded are | ||
borne by the customer classes that receive the services under the | ||
programs; | ||
(5) ensuring the program rules encourage the value of | ||
the incentives to be passed on to the end-use customer; and | ||
(6) ensuring that programs are evaluated, measured, | ||
and verified using a framework established by the commission that | ||
promotes effective program design and consistent and streamlined | ||
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |