Bill Text: TX SB981 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of distributed renewable generation of electricity.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB981 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB981-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of distributed renewable generation of electricity.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB981 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB981-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Carona | S.B. No. 981 | |
(Anchia, Gallego) | ||
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 981: No. |
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relating to the regulation of distributed renewable generation of | ||
electricity. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.916(a)(2), Utilities Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(2) "Distributed renewable generation owner" means: | ||
(A) the owner of distributed renewable | ||
generation; or | ||
(B) a retail electric customer who contracts with | ||
another person to finance, install, or maintain distributed | ||
renewable generation on the customer's side of the meter, | ||
regardless of whether the customer takes ownership of the installed | ||
distributed renewable generation. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 39.916, Utilities Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (d-1) to read as follows: | ||
(d-1) If, at the time distributed renewable generation is | ||
installed on a retail electric customer's side of the meter, the | ||
estimated annual amount of electric energy to be produced by the | ||
distributed renewable generation is less than or equal to the | ||
customer's estimated annual electric energy consumption, the | ||
commission may not: | ||
(1) consider the distributed renewable generation | ||
owner to be an electric utility, a power generation company, or a | ||
retail electric provider; or | ||
(2) require the distributed renewable generation | ||
owner to register with or to be certified by the commission. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |