| S.B. No. 1002 | ||
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| relating to the operation of public electric vehicle charging | ||
| stations. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 2, Utilities Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Chapter 42 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 42. PUBLIC CHARGING OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES | ||
| Sec. 42.0101. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS. (a) The legislature | ||
| finds that it is in the best interests of this state to continue the | ||
| long-standing policy of supporting private sector investment in | ||
| infrastructure by establishing a framework designed to encourage | ||
| competitive private sector investment in the deployment of public | ||
| electric vehicle charging stations. | ||
| (b) The legislature finds that encouraging investment in | ||
| the deployment of public electric vehicle charging stations is | ||
| essential to foster the rapid installation and widespread use of | ||
| public electric vehicle charging stations on property whose owners | ||
| or tenants desire to install public electric vehicle charging | ||
| stations. | ||
| (c) The legislature finds that electric utilities, | ||
| transmission and distribution utilities, competitive entities, and | ||
| the commission have important roles to fill in supporting the | ||
| installation and use of infrastructure for electric vehicle | ||
| charging. | ||
| (d) The legislature finds that it is necessary to: | ||
| (1) implement competitively neutral policies to | ||
| encourage competitive private sector investment in public electric | ||
| vehicle charging station deployment; | ||
| (2) develop and implement competitively neutral | ||
| electricity tariffs that are optimized for public electric vehicle | ||
| charging stations and based on cost causation principles while | ||
| ensuring transparency in pricing and recognizing changing market | ||
| needs; and | ||
| (3) encourage competitive private investment, | ||
| ownership, and operation of public electric vehicle charging | ||
| stations, including equipment that allows for fast charging. | ||
| Sec. 42.0102. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Direct-current fast charging station" means a | ||
| charging system capable of delivering at least 50 kilowatts of | ||
| direct-current electrical power to an electric vehicle's | ||
| rechargeable battery at a voltage of 200 volts or greater. | ||
| (2) "Electric vehicle" means a vehicle that is | ||
| propelled by one or more electric motors using energy stored in the | ||
| form of a rechargeable battery. | ||
| (3) "Electric vehicle charging provider" means the | ||
| owner or operator of a public electric vehicle charging station. | ||
| The term does not include an electric utility or transmission and | ||
| distribution utility. | ||
| (4) "Electric vehicle charging service" means sales | ||
| made from a public electric vehicle charging station to the public. | ||
| (5) "Level two charging station" means a charging | ||
| system capable of delivering at least 3 and not more than 19.2 | ||
| kilowatts of alternating-current electrical power to an electric | ||
| vehicle's rechargeable battery at a voltage of at least 208 volts on | ||
| a circuit of at least 40 amperes. | ||
| (6) "Make-ready infrastructure" means the electrical | ||
| infrastructure required to service a public electric vehicle | ||
| charging station's electrical load on the electric utility's or | ||
| transmission and distribution utility's side of the point of | ||
| delivery. The term: | ||
| (A) includes all site-specific electrical | ||
| infrastructure required to accommodate engineering, physical, | ||
| operational, or other constraints for the public electric vehicle | ||
| charging station, regardless of whether the infrastructure is on | ||
| the utility's or customer's side of the point of delivery; and | ||
| (B) does not include the public electric vehicle | ||
| charging station or any utility infrastructure on the customer's | ||
| side of the point of delivery, up to and including the meter. | ||
| (7) "Public electric vehicle charging station" means | ||
| any level two charging station or direct-current fast charging | ||
| station that delivers electricity from a source outside an electric | ||
| vehicle into an electric vehicle, is separate and distinct from | ||
| make-ready infrastructure, and is accessible for commerStatutes affected: Introduced: () Senate Committee Report: () Engrossed: () House Committee Report: () Enrolled: () | ||