By: Johnson, Menéndez S.B. No. 1929
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of an independent organization certified
for the ERCOT power region to require information from and
registration by certain facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is
amended by adding Section 39.166 to read as follows:
Sec. 39.166. LARGE, FLEXIBLE ELECTRICAL LOADS. (a) The
independent organization certified under Section 39.151 for the
ERCOT power region may require a person seeking to receive retail
electric service for a computing facility that requires a large,
flexible electrical load or that the organization anticipates will
require a large, flexible electrical load to:
(1) provide to the organization any information about
the person or the existing or future load of the facility that is
reasonably necessary for the purposes described by Section
39.151(a), including telemetry of the facility's real-time
electrical load; and
(2) register the facility with the organization.
(b) The independent organization certified under Section
39.151 for the ERCOT power region may adopt a ramping threshold, a
consumption threshold, or other standard for determining whether an
electrical load is large and flexible for the purposes of
Subsection (a).
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.