82R24759 ALL-D
By: Carona S.B. No. 981
(Anchia, Gallego)
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 981: No.
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the regulation of distributed renewable generation of
electricity.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.916(a)(2), Utilities Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(2) "Distributed renewable generation owner" means:
(A) the owner of distributed renewable
generation; or
(B) a retail electric customer who contracts with
another person to finance, install, or maintain distributed
renewable generation on the customer's side of the meter,
regardless of whether the customer takes ownership of the installed
distributed renewable generation.
SECTION 2. Section 39.916, Utilities Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (d-1) to read as follows:
(d-1) If, at the time distributed renewable generation is
installed on a retail electric customer's side of the meter, the
estimated annual amount of electric energy to be produced by the
distributed renewable generation is less than or equal to the
customer's estimated annual electric energy consumption, the
commission may not:
(1) consider the distributed renewable generation
owner to be an electric utility, a power generation company, or a
retail electric provider; or
(2) require the distributed renewable generation
owner to register with or to be certified by the commission.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.