Amend CSSB 715 (senate committee report) as follows:
(1) In SECTION 1 of the bill, in amended Section 39.1592(d), Utilities Code, strike page 1, lines 43 through 52, and substitute the following:
(3) during hours outside a baseline established by the commission that includes morning and evening ramping periods;
(4) on resources that demonstrate the ability to operate when called upon for dispatch for 24 continuous hours at or above the seasonal average generation capability through the resource's own generation capability or through a contract with an on-site or off-site resource, including a battery energy storage resource; or
(5) on resources with dual but separate grid interconnections that provide dispatchable generation to the ERCOT power region.
(2) In SECTION 2 of the bill (page 2, line 6), between "met" and the period, insert "and premature retirements of dispatchable generation facilities are avoided".
(3) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Sections 52(b) and (c), Chapter 410 (H.B. 1500), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, are repealed.
SECTION ____. (a) The Public Utility Commission of Texas shall adopt rules as necessary to implement Section 39.1592, Utilities Code, as amended by this Act, not later than January 1, 2027.
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) of this section, an owner or operator of an electric generation facility that is subject to a power purchase agreement entered into before the effective date of this Act is not required to comply with the performance requirements described by Section 39.1592(b), Utilities Code, until the expiration of the agreement as it exists on the effective date of this Act.