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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to this state's goal for reducing statewide peak electric |
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demand through demand response and load management programs. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 39.905(a), Utilities Code, is amended to |
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read as follows: |
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(a) It is the goal of the legislature that: |
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(1) electric utilities will administer energy |
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efficiency incentive programs in a market-neutral, |
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nondiscriminatory manner but will not offer underlying competitive |
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services; |
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(2) all customers, in all customer classes, will have |
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a choice of and access to energy efficiency alternatives and other |
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choices from the market that allow each customer to reduce energy |
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consumption, peak demand, or energy costs; |
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(3) each electric utility will provide, through |
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market-based standard offer programs or limited, targeted, |
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market-transformation programs, incentives sufficient for retail |
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electric providers and competitive energy service providers to |
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acquire additional cost-effective energy efficiency for |
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residential and commercial customers equivalent to at least: |
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(A) 10 percent of the electric utility's annual |
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growth in demand of residential and commercial customers by |
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December 31, 2007; |
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(B) 15 percent of the electric utility's annual |
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growth in demand of residential and commercial customers by |
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December 31, 2008, provided that the electric utility's program |
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expenditures for 2008 funding may not be greater than 75 percent |
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above the utility's program budget for 2007 for residential and |
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commercial customers, as included in the April 1, 2006, filing; and |
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(C) 20 percent of the electric utility's annual |
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growth in demand of residential and commercial customers by |
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December 31, 2009, provided that the electric utility's program |
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expenditures for 2009 funding may not be greater than 150 percent |
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above the utility's program budget for 2007 for residential and |
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commercial customers, as included in the April 1, 2006, filing; |
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(4) each electric utility in the ERCOT region shall |
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use its best efforts to encourage and facilitate the involvement of |
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the region's retail electric providers in the delivery of |
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efficiency programs and demand response programs under this |
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section; |
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(5) retail electric providers in the ERCOT region, and |
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electric utilities outside of the ERCOT region, shall provide |
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customers with energy efficiency educational materials; [and] |
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(6) notwithstanding Subsection (a)(3), electric |
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utilities shall continue to make available, at 2007 funding and |
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participation levels, any load management standard offer programs |
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developed for industrial customers and implemented prior to May 1, |
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2007; and |
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(7) each electric utility shall implement load |
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management and demand response programs sufficient to achieve, in |
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addition to any reduction resulting from a program in existence on |
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January 1, 2009, reductions in that utility's peak demand in |
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amounts equivalent to at least: |
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(A) one percent by December 31, 2010; |
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(B) two percent by December 31, 2012; |
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(C) three percent by December 31, 2014; |
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(D) four percent by December 31, 2016; and |
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(E) five percent by December 31, 2018. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |