Large Load Planning, Interconnection, and Curtailment Standards (2025 S.B. 6, 89th Legislature, R.S.)

two-reviewer statute enacted tx-sb6-2025-large-load-interconnection

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Record created 2026-08-20, last updated 2026-08-20. Snapshot built September 14, 2026. JSON

Fields, as recorded

State: TX
Kind: statute
Status: enacted
Agency: Texas Legislature; Public Utility Commission of Texas (implementing agency); ERCOT (independent organization implementing curtailment/demand-management provisions)
Citation: Tex. S.B. 6, 89th Leg., R.S. (2025) (Enrolled), amending Tex. Util. Code § 35.004 and Tex. Util. Code ch. 39, subch. D, and adding Tex. Util. Code § 37.0561, 39.169, 39.170
Effective: 2025-06-20
Threshold MW: $99 Texas pass
Mandatory: $99 Texas pass
Summary: $99 Texas pass
Curtailment terms: $99 Texas pass
Generation requirements: $99 Texas pass
Cost allocation: $99 Texas pass
Locked fields: $99 Texas pass 6 recorded fields on this record are in the state and all-states passes.

Sources

9 rows, every one with a quote and a pinpoint. 3 quotes open here

Texas S.B. 6, 89th Legislature, Regular Session (2025), Enrolled bill text statute two-reviewer
“SECTION A1. AASection 35.004, Utilities Code, is amended by adding Subsections (c-1) and (c-2) to read as follows: (c-1) AAThe commission by rule shall ensure that a large load customer who is subject to the standards adopted under Section 37.0561 contributes to the recovery of the interconnecting electric utility ’s costs to interconnect the large load to the utility ’s system. (c-2) AAAn electric cooperative or municipally owned utility that has not adopted customer choice shall pass through to a large load customer who is subject to the standards adopted under Section 37.0561 the reasonable costs to interconnect the large load in a manner determined by the electric cooperative or municipally owned utility.”
p.1, SECTION 1 (amending Utilities Code § 35.004, adding (c-1)-(c-2))
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/pdf/SB00006F.pdf
Downloaded directly (PDF, 14 pages) and text-extracted with pdfplumber. See instrument-level note on the 'AA' text-layer artifact (a Texas Legislative Council double-space/indent convention, confirmed via word-level PDF extraction, not corrected here per collection rules).
Texas S.B. 6, 89th Legislature, Regular Session (2025), Enrolled bill text statute two-reviewer
“(c) AA The standards must apply only to customers requesting a new or expanded interconnection where the total load at a single site would exceed a demand threshold established by the commission based on the size of loads that significantly impact transmission needs in the ERCOT power region. The commission shall establish a demand threshold of 75 megawatts unless the commission determines that a lower threshold is necessary to accomplish the purposes described by Subsection (b).”
p.2, SECTION 2 (adding Utilities Code § 37.0561(c))
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/pdf/SB00006F.pdf
This is the 75 MW default large-load interconnection threshold referenced elsewhere in this file.
Texas S.B. 6, 89th Legislature, Regular Session (2025), Enrolled bill text statute two-reviewer
“(e) AA The standards must require each interconnected large load customer subject to Subsection (c) to disclose to the interconnecting electric utility or municipally owned utility information about the customer ’s on-site backup generating facilities and require the interconnecting electric utility or municipally owned utility to provide the information to the independent organization certified under Section 39.151 for the ERCOT power region. For the purposes of this subsection, "on-site backup generating facilities" means generation that is not capable of exporting energy to the ERCOT transmission grid and that, in the aggregate, can serve at least 50 percent of on-site demand. The independent organization shall establish a threshold before or during an energy emergency alert at which the organization may issue reasonable notice that large load customers with on-site backup generating facilities may be directed to either deploy the customer ’s on-site backup generating facilities or curtail load. After the independent organization deploys all available market services, except for frequency responsive services, the independent organization may direct the applicable electric utility or municipally owned utility to require the large load customer to either deploy the customer ’s on-site backup generating facilities or curtail load. The independent organization shall include a deployment under this section as firm load shed when calculating any price adjustments for reliability deployments.”
pp.2-3, SECTION 2 (adding Utilities Code § 37.0561(e))
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/pdf/SB00006F.pdf
Texas S.B. 6, 89th Legislature, Regular Session (2025), Enrolled bill text statute two-reviewer
$99 Texas pass quote, 650 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
p.4, SECTION 2 (adding Utilities Code § 37.0561(f))
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/pdf/SB00006F.pdf
Texas S.B. 6, 89th Legislature, Regular Session (2025), Enrolled bill text statute two-reviewer
$99 Texas pass quote, 960 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
pp.9-10, SECTION 4 (adding Utilities Code § 39.170(a))
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/pdf/SB00006F.pdf
Texas S.B. 6, 89th Legislature, Regular Session (2025), Enrolled bill text statute two-reviewer
$99 Texas pass quote, 1,057 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
p.10, SECTION 4 (adding Utilities Code § 39.170(b))
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/pdf/SB00006F.pdf
Texas S.B. 6, 89th Legislature, Regular Session (2025), Enrolled bill text statute two-reviewer
$99 Texas pass quote, 296 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
p.13, SECTION 8
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/pdf/SB00006F.pdf
Texas S.B. 6, 89th Legislature, Regular Session (2025), Enrolled bill text statute two-reviewer
$99 Texas pass quote, 502 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
p.14, certification page (Secretary of the Senate / Chief Clerk of the House certifications)
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/pdf/SB00006F.pdf
Texas Legislature Online, 89(R) History for SB 6 government two-reviewer
$99 Texas pass quote, 191 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
History/Actions table
https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=SB6