83R10282 JJT-F
By: Watson S.B. No. 1279
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to cost recovery for certain demand-side electric energy
resources in the competitive electric market.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.107(h), Utilities Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(h) The commission shall establish a nonbypassable
surcharge for an electric utility or transmission and distribution
utility to use to recover reasonable and necessary costs incurred
in deploying advanced metering and meter information networks to
residential customers and nonresidential customers other than
those required by the independent system operator to have an
interval data recorder meter, including costs incurred in deploying
equipment needed for voluntary participation by residential or
commercial customers in demand response programs through a third
party or through a retail electric provider or other third party
using automated load controls. The commission shall ensure that
the nonbypassable surcharge reflects a deployment of advanced
meters that is no more than one-third of the utility's total meters
over each calendar year and shall ensure that the nonbypassable
surcharge does not result in the utility recovering more than its
actual, fully allocated costs for the utility's meter and meter
information network, including costs associated with deploying
systems described by this subsection. The expenses must be
allocated to the customer classes receiving the services, based on
the electric utility's most recently approved tariffs.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.