Bill Text: TX SB1591 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the goal of installing additional capacity for generating landfill gas energy.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-23 - Referred to Natural Resources [SB1591 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1591-Introduced.html
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| By: Duncan | S.B. No. 1591 | |
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| relating to the goal of installing additional capacity for | ||
| generating landfill gas energy. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 39.904, Utilities Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsections (a) and (c) and adding Subsection (a-1) to | ||
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| (a) It is the intent of the legislature that by January 1, | ||
| 2015, an additional 5,000 megawatts of generating capacity from | ||
| renewable energy technologies will have been installed in this | ||
| state. The cumulative installed renewable capacity in this state | ||
| shall total 5,880 megawatts by January 1, 2015, and the commission | ||
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| renewable capacity by January 1, 2025. The cumulative installed | ||
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| and 5,880 megawatts by January 1, 2015. Of the cumulative renewable | ||
| energy technology generating capacity installed to meet the goal of | ||
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| shall be installed by January 1, 2018. | ||
| (a-1) Of the 1,000 megawatts of capacity from renewable | ||
| technologies that shall be installed by January 1, 2018, as | ||
| required by Subsection (a), at least 50 megawatts of new capacity | ||
| from energy generated from landfill gas shall be installed by | ||
| January 1, 2014, at least 100 megawatts from new capacity from | ||
| energy generated from landfill gas shall be installed by January 1, | ||
| 2016, and at least 150 megawatts of new capacity from energy | ||
| generated from landfill gas shall be installed by January 1, 2018. | ||
| (c) Not later than January 1, 2013 [ |
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| shall adopt rules necessary to administer and enforce this section. | ||
| At a minimum, the rules shall: | ||
| (1) establish the minimum annual renewable energy | ||
| requirement, including a minimum annual requirement for the | ||
| installation of new generating capacity from renewable energy | ||
| technologies other than wind energy technologies, for each retail | ||
| electric provider, municipally owned utility, and electric | ||
| cooperative operating in this state in a manner reasonably | ||
| calculated by the commission to produce, on a statewide basis, | ||
| compliance with the requirement prescribed by Subsections | ||
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| (2) specify reasonable performance standards that all | ||
| renewable capacity additions must meet to count against the | ||
| requirement prescribed by Subsections [ |
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| and that: | ||
| (A) are designed and operated so as to maximize | ||
| the energy output from the capacity additions in accordance with | ||
| then-current industry standards; and | ||
| (B) encourage the development, construction, and | ||
| operation of new renewable energy projects at those sites in this | ||
| state that have the greatest economic potential for capture and | ||
| development of this state's environmentally beneficial renewable | ||
| resources; and | ||
| (3) establish enforcement mechanisms, including the | ||
| use of alternative compliance payments, if the capacity goals for | ||
| the generation of energy from renewable energy technologies other | ||
| than wind energy technologies provided in Subsections (a) and (a-1) | ||
| are not met. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
