By: Johnson S.B. No. 1929

(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2023; March 20, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce; April 5, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 5, 2023, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1929 By: Johnson

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the authority of an independent organization certified for the ERCOT power region to require information from and registration by certain facilities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is amended by adding Section 39.166 to read as follows:

Sec. 39.166. LARGE, FLEXIBLE ELECTRICAL LOADS. (a) The independent organization certified under Section 39.151 for the ERCOT power region may require a person seeking to receive retail electric service for a computing facility that requires a large, flexible electrical load or that the organization anticipates will require a large, flexible electrical load to:

(1) provide to the organization any information about the person or the existing or future load of the facility that is reasonably necessary for the purposes described by Section 39.151(a), including telemetry of the facility's real-time electrical load; and

(2) register the facility with the organization.

(b) The independent organization certified under Section 39.151 for the ERCOT power region may adopt a ramping threshold, a consumption threshold, or other standard for determining whether an electrical load is large and flexible for the purposes of Subsection (a).

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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