TX Attorney General Opinion: Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act

What is happening? This is the Attorney General’s 2nd opinion on the Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act that prohibits giving access to critical infrastructure to a certain foreign-owned companies (Korea, China, Russia, et. al.)

Why is this important? The first opinion said the Act is triggered if there is an “interconnection agreement between a transmission service provider and an electricity generator that was a wholly or majority-owned subsidiary of a Chinese-headquartered corporation. See Tex. Att’y Gen. Op. No. KP-0388 (2021) at 3.”

How will this be important? This opinion says providing power to a factory for the factory own use does not appear to trigger the Infrastructure Protection Act.

Texas Attorney General Opinion No. KP- 0410 (2022)