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1	1	81R1710 TRH-D
2	2	By: Anchia H.B. No. 280
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to electric utility energy efficiency goals.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. Section 39.905, Utilities Code, is amended by
10	10	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as
11	11	follows:
12	12	(a) It is the goal of the legislature that:
13	13	(1) electric utilities will administer energy
14	14	efficiency incentive programs in a market-neutral,
15	15	nondiscriminatory manner but will not offer underlying competitive
16	16	services;
17	17	(2) all customers, in all customer classes, will have
18	18	a choice of and access to energy efficiency alternatives and other
19	19	choices from the market that allow each customer to reduce energy
20	20	consumption, peak demand, or energy costs;
21	21	(3) each electric utility will provide, through
22	22	market-based standard offer programs or limited, targeted,
23	23	market-transformation programs, incentives sufficient for retail
24	24	electric providers and competitive energy service providers to
25	25	acquire additional cost-effective energy efficiency for
26	26	residential and commercial customers equivalent to at least:
27	27	(A) 30 [10] percent of the electric utility's
28	28	annual growth in demand of residential and commercial customers by
29	29	December 31, 2011 [2007];
30	30	(B) 40 [15] percent of the electric utility's
31	31	annual growth in demand of residential and commercial customers by
32	32	December 31, 2013 [2008, provided that the electric utility's
33	33	program expenditures for 2008 funding may not be greater than 75
34	34	percent above the utility's program budget for 2007 for residential
35	35	and commercial customers, as included in the April 1, 2006,
36	36	filing]; and
37	37	(C) 50 [20] percent of the electric utility's
38	38	annual growth in demand of residential and commercial customers by
39	39	December 31, 2015 [2009, provided that the electric utility's
40	40	program expenditures for 2009 funding may not be greater than 150
41	41	percent above the utility's program budget for 2007 for residential
42	42	and commercial customers, as included in the April 1, 2006,
43	43	filing];
44	44	(4) each electric utility in the ERCOT region shall
45	45	use its best efforts to encourage and facilitate the involvement of
46	46	the region's retail electric providers in the delivery of
47	47	efficiency programs and demand response programs under this
48	48	section;
49	49	(5) retail electric providers in the ERCOT region, and
50	50	electric utilities outside of the ERCOT region, shall provide
51	51	customers with energy efficiency educational materials; and
52	52	(6) notwithstanding Subsection (a)(3), electric
53	53	utilities shall continue to make available, at 2007 funding and
54	54	participation levels, any load management standard offer programs
55	55	developed for industrial customers and implemented prior to May 1,
56	56	2007.
57	57	(a-1) It is the goal of the legislature that, beginning with
58	58	the year ending December 31, 2016, each electric utility will
59	59	provide incentives sufficient for retail electric providers and
60	60	competitive energy service providers to acquire additional
61	61	cost-effective energy efficiency for all customers, in all
62	62	categories, to the extent that the total annual energy consumption
63	63	in this state is reduced by two percent each year.
64	64	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
65	65	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
66	66	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
67	67	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
68	68	Act takes effect September 1, 2009.