By: Carona S.B. No. 924
(In the Senate - Filed February 24, 2011; March 17, 2011,
read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce;
April 7, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 0; April 7, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to energy efficiency reports by municipally owned
utilities and electric cooperatives.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.9051, Utilities Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (f) and adding Subsections (g) and (h) to read
as follows:
(f) Beginning April [Not later than September] 1, 2012
[2009], a municipally owned utility must report each year to the
State Energy Conservation Office, on [in] a standardized form
developed by [and manner determined by the utility in consultation
with] the office, information regarding the combined effects of the
energy efficiency activities of the utility from the previous
calendar year, including the utility's annual goals, programs
enacted to achieve those goals, and any achieved energy demand or
savings goals.
(g) The State Energy Conservation Office shall provide the
reports made under Subsection (f) to the Energy Systems Laboratory
at the Texas Engineering Experiment Station of The Texas A&M
University System. The laboratory shall calculate the energy
savings and estimated pollution reductions that resulted from the
reported activities.
(h) The energy systems laboratory shall share the results of
the analysis with the Public Utility Commission of Texas, ERCOT,
the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality.
SECTION 2. Section 39.9052, Utilities Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read
as follows:
(b) Beginning April [Not later than September] 1, 2012
[2009], an electric cooperative that had retail sales of more than
500,000 megawatt hours in 2005 must report each year to the State
Energy Conservation Office, on [in] a standardized form developed
by [and manner determined by the electric cooperative in
consultation with] the office, information regarding the combined
effects of the energy efficiency activities of the electric
cooperative from the previous calendar year, including the electric
cooperative's annual goals, programs enacted to achieve those
goals, and any achieved energy demand or savings goals.
(c) The State Energy Conservation Office shall provide the
reports made under Subsection (b) to the Energy Systems Laboratory
at the Texas Engineering Experiment Station of The Texas A&M
University System. The laboratory shall calculate the energy
savings and estimated pollution reductions that resulted from the
reported activities.
(d) The energy systems laboratory shall share the results of
the analysis with the Public Utility Commission of Texas, ERCOT,
the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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