Tex. Util. Code § 36.209 · Subchapter E. COST RECOVERY AND RATE ADJUSTMENT
RECOVERY BY CERTAIN NON-ERCOT UTILITIES OF CERTAIN TRANSMISSION COSTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This section applies only to an electric utility that operates solely outside of ERCOT in areas of this state included in the Southeastern Electric Reliability Council, the Southwest Power Pool, or the Western Electricity Coordinating Council and that owns or operates transmission facilities.
(b) The commission, after notice and hearing, may allow an electric utility to recover on an annual basis its reasonable and necessary expenditures for transmission infrastructure improvement costs and changes in wholesale transmission charges to the electric utility under a tariff approved by a federal regulatory authority to the extent that the costs or charges have not otherwise been recovered. The commission may allow the electric utility to recover only the costs allocable to retail customers in the state and may not allow the electric utility to over-recover costs.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1024 (H.B. 989), Sec. 1, eff. June 18, 2005.
Amended by:
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1226 (S.B. 1492), Sec. 1, eff. June 19, 2009.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.36.htm
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