By Hirschi                                            H.B. No. 2754
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to electric utility integrated resource planning under the
    1-3  oversight of the Texas Public Utility Commission, and the
    1-4  establishment of targets and timelines for the development of
    1-5  renewable energy as a source of power, and the foundation of a
    1-6  sustainment energy industry in Texas.
    1-7        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-8        SECTION 1.  The Public Utility Regulatory Act, Article 1446c,
    1-9  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, is amended by adding Section 16A as
   1-10  follows:
   1-11        Section 16A.  RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT PLAN.  (a)  The
   1-12  commission, by rule shall develop an integrated resource planning
   1-13  process to assure that Texas utilities develop overall power
   1-14  generation, distribution and service plans which minimize future
   1-15  risk of fluctuations in fuel price and availability, reduce
   1-16  environmental costs for which no dollar costs are assigned, and
   1-17  provide the least-cost, long-term costs to utility ratepayers well
   1-18  into the next century.
   1-19        (b)  The commission shall adopt and periodically update a
   1-20  statewide integrated resource plan.
   1-21        (c)  The statewide plan shall include, among other things, a
   1-22  description of how the state's utilities shall develop renewable
   1-23  energy technologies as a part of the mix of technologies relied
    2-1  upon for generating power in Texas, so that, by the year 2003, at
    2-2  least two percent (2%) of the state's electric power generation
    2-3  shall come from such technologies, whether in central or
    2-4  distributed applications, whether owned by utilities, their
    2-5  customers, or third parties.
    2-6        (d)  Each electric generating utility in this state,
    2-7  including a municipally owned utility and a river authority or
    2-8  generating electric cooperative, shall prepare and file with the
    2-9  commission, in the form and at the time required by the commission,
   2-10  an individual integrated resource plan that includes at least a 20
   2-11  year forecast for assessments of load and resources for the
   2-12  utility's service area.
   2-13        (e)  The plan required under this section shall include a
   2-14  specific business plan, detailing how the utility, through
   2-15  targeted, competitive solicitations will acquire that portion of
   2-16  their new generating capacity that will come from renewable energy
   2-17  technologies, according to the statewide renewable energy
   2-18  development plan of the commission, and its timeliness.
   2-19        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-24  and this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-25  passage, and it is so enacted.