Texas 2009 - 81st Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1191 Compare Versions

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1	1	By: Ellis S.B. No. 1191
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4	4	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
5	5	AN ACT
6	6	relating to this state's goal for reducing statewide peak electric
7	7	demand through demand response and load management programs.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. Section 39.905(a), Utilities Code, is amended to
10	10	read as follows:
11	11	(a) It is the goal of the legislature that:
12	12	(1) electric utilities will administer energy
13	13	efficiency incentive programs in a market-neutral,
14	14	nondiscriminatory manner but will not offer underlying competitive
15	15	services;
16	16	(2) all customers, in all customer classes, will have
17	17	a choice of and access to energy efficiency alternatives and other
18	18	choices from the market that allow each customer to reduce energy
19	19	consumption, peak demand, or energy costs;
20	20	(3) each electric utility will provide, through
21	21	market-based standard offer programs or limited, targeted,
22	22	market-transformation programs, incentives sufficient for retail
23	23	electric providers and competitive energy service providers to
24	24	acquire additional cost-effective energy efficiency for
25	25	residential and commercial customers equivalent to at least:
26	26	(A) 10 percent of the electric utility's annual
27	27	growth in demand of residential and commercial customers by
28	28	December 31, 2007;
29	29	(B) 15 percent of the electric utility's annual
30	30	growth in demand of residential and commercial customers by
31	31	December 31, 2008, provided that the electric utility's program
32	32	expenditures for 2008 funding may not be greater than 75 percent
33	33	above the utility's program budget for 2007 for residential and
34	34	commercial customers, as included in the April 1, 2006, filing; and
35	35	(C) 20 percent of the electric utility's annual
36	36	growth in demand of residential and commercial customers by
37	37	December 31, 2009, provided that the electric utility's program
38	38	expenditures for 2009 funding may not be greater than 150 percent
39	39	above the utility's program budget for 2007 for residential and
40	40	commercial customers, as included in the April 1, 2006, filing;
41	41	(4) each electric utility in the ERCOT region shall
42	42	use its best efforts to encourage and facilitate the involvement of
43	43	the region's retail electric providers in the delivery of
44	44	efficiency programs and demand response programs under this
45	45	section;
46	46	(5) retail electric providers in the ERCOT region, and
47	47	electric utilities outside of the ERCOT region, shall provide
48	48	customers with energy efficiency educational materials; [and]
49	49	(6) notwithstanding Subsection (a)(3), electric
50	50	utilities shall continue to make available, at 2007 funding and
51	51	participation levels, any load management standard offer programs
52	52	developed for industrial customers and implemented prior to May 1,
53	53	2007; and
54	54	(7) each electric utility shall implement load
55	55	management and demand response programs sufficient to achieve, in
56	56	addition to any reduction resulting from a program in existence on
57	57	January 1, 2009, reductions in that utility's peak demand in
58	58	amounts equivalent to at least:
59	59	(A) one percent by December 31, 2010;
60	60	(B) two percent by December 31, 2012;
61	61	(C) three percent by December 31, 2014;
62	62	(D) four percent by December 31, 2016; and
63	63	(E) five percent by December 31, 2018.
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.