| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2019; March 21, 2019, read |
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| 3 | + | first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce; |
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| 4 | + | April 9, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee |
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| 5 | + | Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 2; April 9, 2019, |
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| 6 | + | sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | + | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 8 | + | COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2232 By: Hancock |
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| 4 | 11 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 5 | 12 | | AN ACT |
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| 6 | 13 | | relating to a study of the elimination of the effects of federal |
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| 7 | 14 | | renewable energy subsidies. |
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| 8 | 15 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 16 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is |
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| 10 | 17 | | amended by adding Section 39.159 to read as follows: |
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| 11 | 18 | | Sec. 39.159. ELIMINATING EFFECTS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY |
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| 12 | 19 | | SUBSIDIES. (a) The commission shall require the ERCOT independent |
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| 13 | 20 | | system operator to identify and study the ongoing effects that |
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| 14 | 21 | | federal renewable energy subsidies have on the pricing, |
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| 15 | 22 | | reliability, and efficiency of the electric power market in the |
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| 16 | 23 | | ERCOT power region. The commission shall request comments on the |
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| 17 | 24 | | study from interested parties. |
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| 18 | 25 | | (b) The scope of the study under this section must include |
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| 19 | 26 | | peak price formation, negative pricing, ancillary services, |
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| 20 | 27 | | congestion, reserve margins, and transmission costs. |
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| 21 | 28 | | (c) The commission shall include in a report required by |
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| 22 | 29 | | Section 31.003 the results of the study and a description of any |
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| 23 | 30 | | proposed rules to address the findings of the study. |
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| 24 | 31 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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