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House Bill 2052 |
House Author: Hilderbran |
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Effective: 6-19-09 |
Senate Sponsor: Eltife |
Previous law required the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) to take appropriate enforcement action against an electric utility or transmission and distribution utility if any feeder with 10 or more customers appeared on the utility's list of worst 10 percent performing feeders for any two consecutive years or had a system-average interruption duration index (SAIDI) or system-average interruption frequency index (SAIFI) average that was more than 300 percent greater than the system average of all feeders during any two-year period, beginning in 2000. House Bill 2052 authorizes the PUC to take appropriate enforcement action against an electric utility or transmission and distribution utility if any of the utility's feeders with 10 or more customers has had a high SAIDI or SAIFI average, as described above. The bill requires the PUC, in determining the appropriate enforcement action, to consider the feeder's operating and maintenance history, the cause of each interruption in the feeder's service, any action taken by a utility to address the feeder's performance, the estimated cost and benefit of remediating a feeder's performance, and any other relevant factor as determined by the PUC.