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TPUC Staff Prepares Biennial Report For Texas Legislature
Excerpts from TPUC Biennial Report:
{***} It’s that time of the biennium again! Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) staff have been hard at work putting together our biennial report to the Texas Legislature, and there’s a lot to share.
Commissioners are expected to approve publication of the report later this month. The biennial report is required by law to be submitted to the Texas Legislature no later than January 15 of each odd-numbered year. The 89th Texas Legislature will convene on January 14, 2025.
The 2025 Agency Report highlights the Commission’s and Agency Staff’s work over the past two years (primarily during fiscal years 2023 and 2024, from September 1, 2022 – August 31, 2024). During that time, the PUCT experienced significant changes in agency leadership, organizational changes to implement new legislative mandates, like the Texas Energy Fund, and the passage of several key Commission initiatives, including the Permian Basin Reliability Plan and a reliability standard for the ERCOT region.
The Biennial Report provides legislators with updates to legislative recommendations provided to the 88th Texas Legislature. It also offers a look back at how the ERCOT grid handled the summer and winter seasons during the past biennium.
Updates for the electricity, telecommunications, and water and sewer industries—including Commission rulemakings— are also in the report, as is an overview of PUCT Enforcement actions over the biennium.
Once approved by the Commission, the biennial report will be available on the PUCT website. {***}
