{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-utilities-code-302.0001","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Utilities Code § 302.0001","heading":"DEFINITIONS.","body":"In this chapter:\n(1) \"Grantee\" means a person, other than an electric utility, as defined by Section 31.002, who:\n(A) leases property from a landowner; and\n(B) operates a solar power facility on the property.\n(1-a) \"Recycle\" means the processing of an item to recover a usable product.\n(2) \"Solar energy device\" has the meaning assigned by Section 185.001.\n(3) \"Solar power facility\" includes:\n(A) a solar energy device; and\n(B) a facility or equipment, other than a facility or equipment owned by an electric utility, as defined by Section 31.002, used to support the operation of a solar energy device, including an underground or aboveground electrical transmission or communications line, an electric transformer, a battery energy storage facility or other energy storage facility, telecommunications equipment, a road, a meteorological tower, or a maintenance yard.\n(4) \"Solar power facility agreement\" means a lease agreement between a grantee and a landowner that authorizes the grantee to operate a solar power facility on the leased property.\nAdded by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 582 (S.B. 760), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2021.\nAmended by:\nActs 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 434 (H.B. 3228), Sec. 4, eff. September 1, 2025.","path":["UTILITIES CODE","TITLE 6. PRIVATE POWER AGREEMENTS","CHAPTER 302. SOLAR POWER FACILITY AGREEMENTS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.302.htm#302.0001","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:45Z","sha256":"431c8c1475e524261a6b9c0af3ef7a17f3ecf5a6a3fee280431bf0cee088f2b4","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-utilities-code-301.0004","next":"us-tx/tex.-utilities-code-302.0002"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}