Breakthrough Technologies Institute - Fuel Cells 2000

Texas State Energy Conservation Office
Juline Gurasich, Alternative Energy Curriculum
111 East 17th Street, #1114
Austin, TX 78701
Phone: (800) 531-5441, ext 6-9283 or (512) 936-9283
E-mail: juline.gurasich@cpa.state.tx.us
Web: www.seco.cpa.state.tx.us/index.htm
2. STANDARDS/REGULATIONS
POWER GENERATION
Interconnection Standards
www.puc.state.tx.us/electric/business/dg/dgmanual.pdf
www.puc.state.tx.us/rules/subrules/electric/25.211/25.211.pdf
The Texas Public Utility Regulatory Act of 1999 included in the list of customer rights
and safeguards that “A customer is entitled to have access… to on-site distributed
generation…” and in October 1999 the Public Utility Commission of Texas adopted
Substantive Rules addressing technical and procedural aspects of interconnecting
distributed generation. Fuel cells are an eligible distributed generation technology.
Distributed generation is limited to 10 MW at the point of interconnection, and the utility
distribution system to which the distributed generation is interconnected is at a voltage of
less than 60 kV. The total capacity of a facility's individual on-site distributed generation
units may exceed 10 MW; however, no more than 10 MW of a facility's capacity may be
interconnected at the point of common coupling.
Contact:
Public Utility Commission of Texas
1701 N. Congress Avenue
PO Box 13326
Austin, TX 78711-3326
Phone: (512) 936-7000
Email: customer@puc.state.tx.us
Web: www.puc.state.tx.us/index.cfm
4. INCENTIVES/MARKET STIMULATION
VEHICLES
Emissions Reduction Incentive Grants
http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/implementation/air/terp/erig_apps.html
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