79R4311 JJT-F
By: Cook of Colorado H.B. No. 2022
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the legislature's goal for energy efficiency in this
state and related energy efficiency programs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.905, Utilities Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 39.905. GOAL FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY. (a) It is the
goal of the legislature that:
(1) electric utilities will administer energy savings
incentive programs in a market-neutral, nondiscriminatory manner
but will not offer underlying competitive services;
(2) all customers, in all customer classes, have a
choice of and access to energy efficiency alternatives and other
choices from the market that allow each customer to reduce the
customer's energy consumption, peak demand, or [and reduce] energy
costs; and
(3) each electric utility will provide, through
market-based standard offer programs or limited, targeted,
market-transformation programs, incentives sufficient for retail
electric providers and competitive energy service providers to
acquire additional cost-effective energy efficiency equivalent to
at least 10 percent of the electric utility's annual growth in
demand.
(b) The commission shall provide oversight and adopt rules
and procedures, as necessary, to ensure that the goal of this
section is achieved by January 1, 2007 [2004].
(c) A standard offer program under Subsection (a)(3) must be
neutral with respect to technologies, equipment, or fuels and must
to the extent possible facilitate the full participation of
emerging technologies, including thermal, chemical, and mechanical
technologies and electrical energy storage technologies.
(d) The commission shall establish market transformation
programs for:
(1) energy-smart schools;
(2) appliance retirement and recycling;
(3) air conditioning system tune-ups; and
(4) the use of trees or other landscaping for energy
efficiency.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.