Texas Utilities Code

§ 39.905 — GOAL FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY

UT § 39.905Title 2. PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY ACT · Part B. ELECTRIC UTILITIES · Ch. 39. RESTRUCTURING OF ELECTRIC UTILITY INDUSTRY · Art. Z. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

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(a)It is the goal of the legislature that:

(1)electric utilities will administer energy efficiency incentive programs in a market-neutral, nondiscriminatory manner but will not offer underlying competitive services;

(2)all customers, in all customer classes, will have a choice of and access to energy efficiency alternatives and other choices from the market that allow each customer to reduce energy consumption, summer and winter peak demand, or energy costs;

(3)each electric utility annually will provide, through market-based standard offer programs or through targeted market-transformation programs, incentives sufficient for retail electric providers and competitive energy service providers to acquire additional cost-effective energy efficiency, subject to cost ceilings established by the commission, for the utility's residential and commercial customers equivalent to:

(A)not less than:

(i)30 percent of the electric utility's annual growth in demand of residential and commercial customers by December 31 of each year beginning with the 2013 calendar year; and

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Legislative history

Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 328 (S.B. 712), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2005. Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 939 (H.B. 3693), Sec. 22, eff. September 1, 2007. Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 180 (S.B. 1125), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2011. Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 180 (S.B. 1125), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2011. Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1346 (S.B. 1434), Sec. 1, eff. June 17, 2011. Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1079 (H.B. 3361), Sec. 4.01, eff. September 1, 2013. Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 467 (H.B. 4170), Sec. 16.003, eff. September 1, 2019.