Bill Text: TX HB1986 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to ensure the Electric Reliability Council of Texas has adequate reserve power to prevent blackout conditions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-07 - Referred to State Affairs [HB1986 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1986-Introduced.html
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| By: Turner | H.B. No. 1986 | |
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| relating to the authority of the Public Utility Commission of Texas | ||
| to ensure the Electric Reliability Council of Texas has adequate | ||
| reserve power to prevent blackout conditions. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 39.159 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 39.159. ENSURING RESERVE POWER CAPACITY. (a) The | ||
| commission by rule shall develop a process for obtaining emergency | ||
| reserve power generation capacity as appropriate to prevent | ||
| blackout conditions caused by shortages of generated power in the | ||
| ERCOT power region. The rules must provide parameters for | ||
| estimating the amount of emergency reserve power generation | ||
| capacity necessary to prevent blackout conditions and mechanisms | ||
| for equitably sharing the costs of contracting for the reserve | ||
| capacity to be available and the costs of generated power provided | ||
| to prevent blackout conditions. | ||
| (b) In accordance with rules adopted under Subsection (a), | ||
| an independent organization certified under Section 39.151 shall | ||
| contract with power generation companies for a defined amount of | ||
| emergency reserve power generation capacity the organization may | ||
| call on to prevent blackouts caused by shortages of generated | ||
| power. | ||
| (c) Before the independent organization calls on the | ||
| emergency reserve power generation capacity to prevent blackout | ||
| conditions, the organization shall undertake to use all market | ||
| sources of power and demand reduction available in accordance with | ||
| commission rules adopted under this section. | ||
| 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, 2011. | ||
