Bill Text: TX SB1295 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the provision of information regarding distributed generation and certain electrical loads.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-28 - Left pending in committee [SB1295 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1295-Introduced.html
  88R10816 JXC-F
 
  By: Schwertner S.B. No. 1295
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the provision of information regarding distributed
  generation and certain electrical loads.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 39.9165, Utilities Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 39.9165.  DISTRIBUTED GENERATION FACILITY REPORTING.  
  (a)  In this section, "distributed generation facility"
  [generation"] is an electrical generating facility, including an
  energy storage facility, that:
               (1)  [may be located at a customer's point of delivery;
               [(2)]  is connected at a voltage less than 60
  kilovolts; and
               (2)  is capable of being [(3)  may be] connected in
  parallel operation to the utility system.
         (b)  An independent organization certified under Section
  39.151 may [shall] require an owner or operator of a distributed
  generation facility operating in the power region served by the
  independent organization to provide information about the
  distributed generation facility, as specified by the independent
  organization, to the owner's or operator's [to register with the
  organization and] interconnecting electric cooperative,
  municipally owned utility, or transmission and distribution
  utility [information necessary for the interconnection of the
  distributed generator].
         (c)  An independent organization certified under Section
  39.151 may require each electric cooperative, municipally owned
  utility, and transmission and distribution utility operating in the
  power region served by the independent organization to provide to
  the independent organization any information about distributed
  generation facilities or distribution-connected loads in the
  service territory of the electric cooperative, municipally owned
  utility, or transmission and distribution utility that the
  independent organization identifies as necessary for maintaining
  system reliability.
         (d)  The commission may require an owner or operator of a
  distributed generation facility or an electric cooperative,
  municipally owned utility, or transmission and distribution
  utility to provide the information described by Subsections (b) and
  (c).
         (e)  The commission or an independent organization certified
  under Section 39.151 may require information described by
  Subsections (b) and (c) to be provided on an individual basis or on
  an aggregated basis [This section does not apply to distributed
  generation serving a residential property].
         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.
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