Senate Committee on Electric Utility Restructuring, Interim - 75th R.S. (1997)
| Committee: | Senate Electric Utility Restructuring, Interim | |
| Title: | Interim report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report to the 76th Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Air quality | Alternative energy | Electric Reliability Council of Texas | Electric utility deregulation | Electric utility rates and charges | Electric utility stranded costs and refunds | Electricity transmission and distribution | Environmental protection | Providers of last resort | Public Utility Regulatory Act | Renewable energy | Wind energy | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.75 el25 | |
| Session: | 75th R.S. (1997) | |
| Online version: | View report [213 pages File size: 8,279 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study and determine any needed changes in the Public Utility Regulatory Act and related statutes to create a competitive Texas electric market that is open to all classes of retail customers. Such review shall include but not be limited to the following issues: | |
| 2. | An appropriate date for opening the market to direct end-use customer access, and whether a phase-in program for public schools or other governmental units is warranted | |
| 3. | Methods for quantification of a utility's investments that would be uneconomic in a fully competitive market (stranded costs) and appropriate methods for recovery of costs (including rate freezes, adjustments to depreciation, transition charges, securitization); | |
| 4. | Balancing rate reductions with recovery of stranded costs during the transition to a competitive market; | |
| 5. | The basic structural requirements for the competitive market to serve as an effective and efficient replacement for traditional regulation; | |
| 6. | Provisions for municipal and cooperative utilities recognizing the importance of maintaining local control of community-owned systems and protecting the financial integrity of cooperative and municipal utilities; | |
| 7. | Safeguards necessary for customer protection in a fully competitive marketplace (including designation of a provider of last resort, protections for low-income customers, obligations to be imposed on all providers, ability of providers to serve customers on an aggregated basis, and fair marketing and sales practices); | |
| 8. | System reliability and service quality standards needed to ensure safe and reliable power and the role of the independent system operator in a fully competitive market; | |
| 9. | Environmental issues relating to a competitive marketplace; | |
| 10. | Development of renewable energy resources such as windpower in a competitive marketplace; and | |
| 11. | Scope and nature of the continuing role of regulation in a deregulated electric power industry including oversight of market power. | |
| 12. | Make recommendations for legislative and regulatory action, if necessary. | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | Senate Electric Utility Restructuring, Interim | |
| Title: | Interim report - Market-based methods | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Market-based methods of providing revewable energy and energy efficiencey programs: report to the Texas Senate Interim Committee on Electric Utility Restructuring. | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.75 el25ma | |
| Session: | 75th R.S. (1997) | |
| Online version: | View document [88 pages File size: 509 kb] | |
| Committee: | Senate Electric Utility Restructuring, Interim | |
| Title: | Interim report - PUC comments | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Public Utility Commission of Texas project no. 14789 : comments on low income and environmental program funding workshop for the requested studies by the Senate Interim Committee on Electric Utility Restructuring. | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.75 el25c | |
| Session: | 75th R.S. (1997) | |
| Committee: | Senate Electric Utility Restructuring, Interim | |
| Title: | Interim report - Revenues | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report to the Texas Senate Interim Committee on Electric Utility Restructuring: revenues supporting low-income, energy efficiency, and environmental programs. | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.75 el25r | |
| Session: | 75th R.S. (1997) | |
| Online version: | View document [63 pages File size: 2,668 kb] | |
| Committee: | Senate Electric Utility Restructuring, Interim | |
| Title: | Interim report - Transmission system | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report to the Texas Senate Interim Committee on Electric Utility Restructuring : adequacy of the transmission system and the existence of must-run resources in a retail access environment. | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.75 el25a | |
| Session: | 75th R.S. (1997) | |
| Online version: | View document [84 pages File size: 4,112 kb] | |
| Committee: | Senate Electric Utility Restructuring, Interim | |
| Title: | Committee documentation: committee schedule | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.75 EL25M | |
| Session: | 75th R.S. (1997) | |
| Online version: | View document [1 pages File size: 131 kb] | |
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