Bill Text: TX SB715 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the applicability of certain generation reliability requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-06 - Filed [SB715 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB715-Introduced.html

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89R4457 SCR-D
By: Sparks S.B. No. 715

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the applicability of certain generation reliability
requirements.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.1592(a), Utilities Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) This section applies only to an electric generation
facility in the ERCOT power region that is subject to [for which] a
standard generator interconnection agreement, [is signed on or
after January 1, 2027, that] has been in operation for at least one
year, and [that] is not a self-generator.
SECTION 2. (a) Sections 52(b) and (c), Chapter 410 (H.B.
1500), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, are
repealed.
(b) Notwithstanding the deadline provided by Section
39.1592(b), Utilities Code, an owner or operator of an electric
generation facility to which Section 39.1592(b), Utilities Code,
applies shall make the first demonstration required by Section
39.1592(b), Utilities Code, not later than January 1, 2027.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.