Bill Text: TX SB2012 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the implementation of a program to meet the reliability needs of the ERCOT power region.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-23 - Postponed 6/1/23 10:00 AM [SB2012 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB2012-Comm_Sub.html

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88R25766 JXC-D
By: Schwertner, et al. S.B. No. 2012
(Hunter)
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 2012: No.

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the implementation of a program to meet the reliability
needs of the ERCOT power region.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is
amended by adding Section 39.166 to read as follows:
Sec. 39.166. RELIABILITY PROGRAM. (a) The commission may
not require retail customers or load-serving entities in the ERCOT
power region to purchase credits designed to support a required
reserve margin or other capacity or reliability requirement until:
(1) the independent organization certified under
Section 39.151 for the ERCOT power region and the wholesale
electric market monitor complete an updated assessment on the cost
to and effects on the ERCOT market of the proposed reliability
program; and
(2) the independent organization certified under
Section 39.151 for the ERCOT power region begins implementing real
time co-optimization of energy and ancillary services in the ERCOT
wholesale market.
(b) The assessment required under Subsection (a) must
include:
(1) an evaluation of the cost of new entry and the
effects of the proposed reliability program on consumer costs and
the competitive retail market;
(2) a compilation of detailed information regarding
cost offsets realized through a reduction in costs in the energy and
ancillary services markets and use of reliability unit commitments;
(3) a set of metrics to measure the effects of the
proposed reliability program on system reliability;
(4) an evaluation of the cost to retain existing
dispatchable resources in the ERCOT power region;
(5) an evaluation of the planned timeline for
implementation of real time co-optimization for energy and
ancillary services in the ERCOT power region; and
(6) anticipated market and reliability effects of new
and updated ancillary service products.
(c) The commission may not implement a reliability program
described by Subsection (a) unless the commission by rule
establishes the essential features of the program, including
requirements to meet the reliability needs of the power region, and
the program:
(1) requires the independent organization certified
under Section 39.151 for the ERCOT power region to procure the
credits centrally in a manner designed to prevent market
manipulation by affiliated generation and retail companies;
(2) limits participation in the program to
dispatchable resources with the specific attributes necessary to
meet operational needs of the ERCOT power region;
(3) ensures that a generator cannot receive credits
that exceed the amount of generation bid into the forward market by
that generator;
(4) ensures that an electric generating unit can
receive a credit only for being available to perform in real time
during the tightest intervals of low supply and high demand on the
grid, as defined by the commission on a seasonal basis;
(5) establishes a penalty structure, resulting in a
net benefit to load, for generators that bid into the forward market
but do not meet the full obligation;
(6) provides the wholesale electric market monitor
with the authority and resources necessary to investigate potential
instances of market manipulation by any means, including by
financial or physical actions;
(7) ensures that the net cost imposed on the ERCOT
market for the credits does not exceed $500 million annually;
(8) ensures that any program reliability standard
reasonably balances the incremental reliability benefits to
customers against the incremental costs of the program based on an
evaluation by the wholesale electric market monitor;
(9) establishes a single ERCOT-wide clearing price for
the program and does not differentiate payments or credit values
based on locational constraints;
(10) does not assign costs, credit, or collateral for
the program in a manner that provides a cost advantage to
load-serving entities who own, or whose affiliates own, generation
facilities;
(11) requires sufficient secured collateral so that
other market participants do not bear the risk of non-performance
or non-payment;
(12) ensures that the cost of all credits paid to
dispatchable resources is allocated to loads based on an hourly
load ratio share; and
(13) removes any market changes implemented as a
bridge solution for the program not later than the first
anniversary of the date the program was implemented.
(d) The commission and the independent organization
certified under Section 39.151 for the ERCOT power region may not
adopt a market rule for the ERCOT power region associated with the
implementation of a reliability program described by Subsection (a)
that provides a cost advantage to load-serving entities who own, or
whose affiliates own, generation facilities.
(e) The wholesale electric market monitor biennially shall:
(1) evaluate the incremental reliability benefits of
the program for consumers compared to the costs to consumers of the
program and the costs in the energy and ancillary services markets;
and
(2) report the results of each evaluation to the
legislature.
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.