Bill Text: TX SB1707 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to reliability backup service for non-dispatchable generation resources in the ERCOT power region.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB1707 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1707-Introduced.html
| By: Middleton | S.B. No. 1707 | |
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| relating to reliability backup service for non-dispatchable | ||
| generation resources in the ERCOT power region. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 39.1591 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 39.1591. BACKUP RELIABILITY SERVICE FOR | ||
| NON-DISPATCHABLE GENERATION. (a) For the purposes of this | ||
| section, a generation facility is considered to be non-dispatchable | ||
| if the facility's generation output is controlled primarily by | ||
| forces outside of human control. | ||
| (b) Each non-dispatchable wholesale generation resource in | ||
| the ERCOT power region shall pay a charge for reliability backup | ||
| service during each interval the non-dispatchable wholesale | ||
| generation resource is not available to meet system needs as | ||
| scheduled. The charge must be paid to dispatchable thermal | ||
| resources providing energy or ancillary services during the | ||
| intervals when the reliability backup service is required. | ||
| (c) The commission shall: | ||
| (1) establish the charge for reliability backup | ||
| service in an amount necessary to fully compensate dispatchable | ||
| thermal resources for providing reliability backup service to | ||
| improve and maintain the reliability of the grid; and | ||
| (2) direct the ERCOT independent system operator to | ||
| settle the charge for reliability backup service periodically. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
