Texas Utilities Code
§ 39.9165 — DISTRIBUTED GENERATION FACILITY REPORTING
UT § 39.9165Title 2. PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY ACT · Part B. ELECTRIC UTILITIES · Ch. 39. RESTRUCTURING OF ELECTRIC UTILITY INDUSTRY · Art. Z. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Statute text
View on source(a)In this section:
(1)"Distributed generation facility" is an electrical generating facility, including an energy storage facility, that:
(A)is connected at a voltage less than 60 kilovolts; and
(B)is capable of being connected in parallel operation to the utility system.
(2)"Transmission service provider" means a transmission and distribution utility, municipally owned utility, or electric cooperative that owns or operates facilities used for the transmission of electricity.
(b)An independent organization certified under Section 39.151 may establish protocols to require a person who owns or operates a distributed generation facility interconnected to a utility system operating in the power region served by the independent organization, or who seeks to interconnect such a facility, to provide to the interconnecting transmission and distribution utility, municipally owned utility, or electric cooperative information about the distributed generation facility that the independent organization determines is necessary for maintaining system reliability. (b-1) Protocols adopted under Subsection (b) may require that the information be provided as a condition to interconnecting the distributed generation facility.
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Legislative history
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 331 (H.B. 3390), Sec. 1, eff. June 2, 2023.