Texas Utilities Code

§ 38.076 — INVOLUNTARY AND VOLUNTARY LOAD SHEDDING

UT § 38.076Title 2. PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY ACT · Part B. ELECTRIC UTILITIES · Ch. 38. REGULATION OF ELECTRIC SERVICES · Art. D. IMPROVEMENTS IN SERVICE

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(a)The commission by rule shall adopt a system to allocate load shedding among electric cooperatives, municipally owned utilities, and transmission and distribution utilities providing transmission service in the ERCOT power region during an involuntary load shedding event initiated by the independent organization certified under Section 39.151 for the region during an energy emergency.

(b)The system must provide for allocation of the load shedding obligation to each electric cooperative, municipally owned utility, and transmission and distribution utility in different seasons based on historical seasonal peak demand in the service territory of the electric cooperative, municipally owned utility, or transmission and distribution utility.

(c)The commission by rule shall:

(1)categorize types of critical load that may be given the highest priority for power restoration; and

(2)require electric cooperatives, municipally owned utilities, and transmission and distribution utilities providing transmission service in the ERCOT power region to submit to the commission and the independent organization certified under Section 39.151 for the region:

(A)customers or circuits the cooperative or utility has designated as critical load; and

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 426 (S.B. 3), Sec. 16, eff. June 8, 2021.