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Senate Bill 924 |
Senate Author: Carona |
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Effective: See below |
House Sponsor: Keffer |
Previous law established a reporting requirement for a municipally owned utility and an electric cooperative with retail sales of more than 500,000 megawatt hours in 2005 to report not later than September 1, 2009, to the State Energy Conservation Office information regarding the combined effects of the energy efficiency activities of the utility or electric cooperative. Senate Bill 924 amends the Utilities Code, effective September 1, 2011, to instead require such a utility or cooperative to report annually to the office those combined effects from the previous calendar year. The office is required to provide the reports to the Energy Systems Laboratory at the Texas Engineering Experiment Station of The Texas A&M University System for the calculation of the energy savings and estimated pollution reductions resulting from the reported activities, and the laboratory is required to share the information with specified entities.
The bill also authorizes a person or entity that provides certain regulated essential products or services to the public to enter into a contract for an emergency notification system, sets out requirements for such a system, and makes these provisions effective June 17, 2011.