89R10526 ANG-D
By: Hall, Sparks S.B. No. 1692
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a limitation on wind and solar installed generation
capacity in the ERCOT power region.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.1592(a), Utilities Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) This section applies only to an electric generation
facility in the ERCOT power region for which a standard generator
interconnection agreement is signed on or after September 1, 2025
[January 1, 2027, that has been in operation for at least one year],
and that is not a self-generator.
SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is
amended by adding Section 39.1596 to read as follows:
Sec. 39.1596. LIMITATION ON WIND AND SOLAR GENERATION
CAPACITY. (a) This section applies only to an electric generation
facility that:
(1) exclusively relies on an energy source derived
from wind or the sun; and
(2) is subject to a standard generator interconnection
agreement.
(b) Not later than January 1, 2029, the commission shall
determine whether the installed generation capacity from the
electric generation facilities described by Subsection (a) is
contributing more than 35 percent of the available generation
capacity for the ERCOT power region at any time.
(c) If the commission determines the installed generation
capacity described by Subsection (b) contributes more than 35
percent of the available generation capacity for the ERCOT power
region at any time, the commission shall by rule establish a program
to require disconnection from the power grid of electric generation
facilities as provided by this subsection. The program must:
(1) require the disconnection from the power grid of
only facilities for which a standard generator interconnection
agreement was signed before September 1, 2025; and
(2) establish a goal of reducing the installed
generation capacity from facilities for which a standard generator
interconnection agreement was signed before September 1, 2025, so
that the installed capacity from all electric generation facilities
exclusively relying on an energy source derived from wind or the sun
contributes 35 percent or less of the available generation capacity
for the ERCOT power region at any time.
(d) After completion of the program required under
Subsection (c), the commission may allow the installation of new
generation capacity from an electric generation facility described
by Subsection (a), regardless of the goal described by Subsection
(c)(2), if the facility complies with Section 39.1592.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2025.