By: Paddie H.B. No. 4378
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the supply of power and the financial stability of the
  competitive wholesale and retail electricity markets.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is amended by adding
  Sections 39.1513 and 39.1514 to read as follows:
         Sec. 39.1513  ADEQUACY OF SUPPLY IN THE WHOLESALE
  ELECTRICITY MARKET (a) The commission shall adopt and enforce
  rules to promote adequacy of generation supply.
         (b)  Rules adopted under subsection (a) shall require:
               (1)  appropriate price signals in the wholesale power
  market; and
               (2)  seasonal or annual procurement of energy or
  generation capacity.
         (c)  Rules adopted under this section regarding wholesale
  power market price signals shall be designed to:
               (1)  moderate price volatility; and
               (2)  ensure revenues sufficient to encourage
  construction and operation of dispatchable generation resources
  necessary to ensure reliable power supply.
         (d)  The commission shall require the use of risk-weighted
  analysis to determine the quantities to be procured under
  subsection (b)(2).
         (e)  The commission shall ensure the costs of procuring
  adequate generation supply under this section shall be equitably
  apportioned to market participants.
         Sec. 39.1514  FINANCIAL STABILITY OF WHOLESALE MARKET The
  commission shall ensure that each participant in the wholesale
  power market posts sufficient collateral or otherwise provides
  sufficient assurance that it will meet its financial obligations
  incurred in high and low customer demand conditions.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.