| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to recovery of costs for pilot programs to measure energy |
|
|
savings that result from water conservation programs. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Section 39.905, Utilities Code, is amended by |
|
|
adding Subsection (l) to read as follows: |
|
|
(l) As part of an electric utility's energy efficiency |
|
|
incentive programs, an electric utility in conjunction with a |
|
|
municipally owned water utility may design and implement a pilot |
|
|
program to measure energy savings achieved as a result of the |
|
|
implementation of one or more water conservation programs |
|
|
administered by the water utility. The electric utility may |
|
|
recover reasonable costs for the program through its energy |
|
|
efficiency cost recovery factor under Subsection (b)(1) in addition |
|
|
to the costs the electric utility would have otherwise recovered |
|
|
through the energy efficiency cost recovery factor. |
|
|
SECTION 2. The Public Utility Commission of Texas shall |
|
|
adopt rules as necessary to implement Section 39.905(l), Utilities |
|
|
Code, as added by this Act, not later than January 1, 2016. |
|
|
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |