81R1537 JJT-D
By: Rodriguez H.B. No. 239
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a study of the proportion of this state's electric
energy that can be generated using renewable energy technology.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The state energy conservation office shall
conduct a study to determine how not less than 25 percent of this
state's electric energy may be generated by renewable energy
technologies by January 1, 2025.
SECTION 2. The state energy conservation office, in
conducting the study, shall examine costs and efficiencies of
available renewable energy technologies for electric energy
generation and shall recommend legislative and administrative
policy changes necessary to achieve the goal of having not less than
25 percent of this state's electric energy generated by renewable
energy technologies by January 1, 2025.
SECTION 3. The state energy conservation office shall
consult with the Public Utility Commission of Texas in conducting
the study. The commission shall cooperate with the office in
conducting the study.
SECTION 4. The state energy conservation office shall
present the office's report to the governor, the lieutenant
governor, and the speaker of the house of representatives not later
than January 1, 2011.
SECTION 5. 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, 2009.