Tex. Utilities Code § 31.005
This is the official text of Tex. Utilities Code § 31.005, part of Texas’s Utilities Code — regulates utility companies.
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§ 31.005. CUSTOMER-OPTION PROGRAMS.
Official statutory text
(a) This section applies to:
(1) a municipally owned electric utility;
(2) an electric cooperative;
(3) an electric utility;
(4) a power marketer;
(5) a retail electric provider; and
(6) a transmission and distribution utility.
(b) An entity to which this section applies shall consider establishing customer-option programs that encourage the reduction of air contaminant emissions, such as:
(1) an appliance retirement and recycling program;
(2) a solar water heating market transformation program;
(3) an air conditioning tune-up program;
(4) a program that allows the use of on-site energy storage as an eligible efficiency measure in existing programs;
(5) a program that encourages the deployment of advanced electricity meters;
(6) a program that encourages the installation of cool roofing materials;
(7) a program that establishes lighting limits;
(8) a distributed energy generation technology program; and
(9) a program that encourages the use of high-efficiency building distribution transformers and variable air volume fan controls.
(1) a municipally owned electric utility;
(2) an electric cooperative;
(3) an electric utility;
(4) a power marketer;
(5) a retail electric provider; and
(6) a transmission and distribution utility.
(b) An entity to which this section applies shall consider establishing customer-option programs that encourage the reduction of air contaminant emissions, such as:
(1) an appliance retirement and recycling program;
(2) a solar water heating market transformation program;
(3) an air conditioning tune-up program;
(4) a program that allows the use of on-site energy storage as an eligible efficiency measure in existing programs;
(5) a program that encourages the deployment of advanced electricity meters;
(6) a program that encourages the installation of cool roofing materials;
(7) a program that establishes lighting limits;
(8) a distributed energy generation technology program; and
(9) a program that encourages the use of high-efficiency building distribution transformers and variable air volume fan controls.
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