Relating to temporary emergency energy facilities.

HB 4581 establishes rules for Texas utilities to lease temporary emergency power facilities during major outages. It requires these facilities to be mobile and capable of generating power within three hours of connection, while prohibiting their inclusion in standard grid pricing systems. Utilities may bypass competitive bidding and prior commission approval for emergency leases only if they lack necessary capacity to restore power during significant outages, provided the leased capacity doesn’t exceed what’s needed for restoration. The bill also mandates utilities to document emergency leases in future rate cases and maintain a shared list of deployed facilities for emergency management coordination. This directly affects Texas transmission and distribution utilities and the Texas Division of Emergency Management.