80R4682 TAD-D
 
  By: Straus H.B. No. 3241
 
 
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to energy efficiency incentive programs administered by
electric utilities.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Section 39.905(a), Utilities Code, is amended to
read as follows:
       (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 energy
consumption, peak demand, or 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 20 [10] percent of the electric utility's annual growth in
demand.
       SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.