89R6355 SCR-F
By: Darby H.B. No. 3069
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the approval of a certificate of convenience and
necessity for certain transmission projects.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 37.056(d), Utilities Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(d) The commission by rule shall establish criteria, in
addition to the criteria described by Subsection (c), for granting
a certificate for a transmission project that serves the ERCOT
power region and that is not necessary to meet state or federal
reliability standards. The criteria must include a comparison over
a period of not less than 10 years of the estimated cost of the
transmission project for consumers and the estimated congestion
cost savings for consumers that may result from the transmission
project, considering both current and future expected congestion
levels and the transmission project's ability to reduce those
congestion levels. The criteria must apply a three percent
discount rate to the quantified value of the congestion cost
savings after the fifth year of the comparison period. The
commission shall include with its decision on an application for a
certificate to which this subsection applies findings on the
criteria.
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
a proceeding affecting a certificate of public convenience and
necessity that commences on or after the effective date of this Act.
A proceeding affecting a certificate of public convenience and
necessity that commenced before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect on the date the proceeding is
commenced, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.