Bill Text: TX SB1280 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to attaining reserve capacity margins in power regions to meet expected peak demand.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-22 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB1280 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1280-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Watson | S.B. No. 1280 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2013; March 13, 2013, read | ||
| first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce; | ||
| April 11, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
| Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 2; April 11, 2013, | ||
| sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1280 | By: Watson | |
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| relating to attaining reserve capacity margins in power regions to | ||
| meet expected peak demand. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 39.161 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 39.161. POWER REGION RESERVE MARGIN. (a) Not later | ||
| than July 1 of each year, the independent organization certified | ||
| under Section 39.151 for each power region shall study and project | ||
| for the following year the: | ||
| (1) anticipated and installed generation capacity | ||
| located in or capable of delivering electricity to the power | ||
| region; | ||
| (2) expected peak demand in the power region; and | ||
| (3) amount of reserve capacity necessary to maintain a | ||
| reliability standard set by the commission for the power region. | ||
| (b) If the independent organization determines under | ||
| Subsection (a) that the amount of reserve capacity available for | ||
| the following year will not maintain the reliability standard | ||
| relative to the expected peak demand and a capacity deficit may | ||
| occur, the organization shall acquire incremental capacity through | ||
| opt-in load participation programs, with at least 20 percent of the | ||
| incremental capacity being attained from each of the following | ||
| classes: | ||
| (1) residential; | ||
| (2) commercial; and | ||
| (3) industrial. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
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