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1 | AN ACT concerning public utilities.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Coal Resources
Development Law of 1997 is amended by changing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Sections 6-5 and 6-7 as follows:
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7 | (20 ILCS 687/6-5)
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8 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 16, 2007)
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9 | Sec. 6-5. Renewable Energy Resources and Coal Technology
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10 | Development Assistance Charge.
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11 | (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 16-111 of the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Public
Utilities
Act but subject to subsection (e) of this | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Section,
each
public utility, electric cooperative, as defined | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | in Section 3.4 of the Electric
Supplier
Act, and municipal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | utility, as referenced in Section 3-105 of the Public
Utilities | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Act,
that is engaged in the delivery of electricity or the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | distribution of natural
gas within
the State of Illinois shall, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | effective January 1, 1998, assess each of its
customer
accounts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | a monthly Renewable Energy Resources and Coal Technology
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20 | Development Assistance Charge. The delivering public utility, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | municipal
electric or
gas utility, or electric or gas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | cooperative for a self-assessing purchaser
remains
subject to | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | the collection of the fee imposed by this Section. The monthly
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1 | charge
shall be as follows:
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2 | (1) $0.05 per month on each account for residential
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3 | electric service as defined in Section 13 of the Energy
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4 | Assistance Act;
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5 | (2) $0.05 per month on each account for residential
gas | ||||||
6 | service as defined in Section 13 of the
Energy Assistance | ||||||
7 | Act;
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8 | (3) $0.50 per month on each account for
nonresidential | ||||||
9 | electric service, as defined in Section 13
of the Energy | ||||||
10 | Assistance Act, which had less than 10
megawatts of peak | ||||||
11 | demand during the previous calendar
year;
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12 | (4) $0.50 per month on each account for
nonresidential | ||||||
13 | gas service, as defined in Section 13 of
the Energy | ||||||
14 | Assistance Act, which had distributed to it
less than | ||||||
15 | 4,000,000
therms of gas during the previous calendar year;
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16 | (5) $37.50 per month on each account for
nonresidential | ||||||
17 | electric service, as defined in Section 13
of the Energy | ||||||
18 | Assistance Act, which had 10 megawatts
or greater of peak | ||||||
19 | demand during the previous calendar
year; and
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20 | (6) $37.50 per month on each account for
nonresidential | ||||||
21 | gas service, as defined in Section 13 of
the Energy | ||||||
22 | Assistance Act, which had 4,000,000 or
more therms of gas | ||||||
23 | distributed to it during the previous
calendar year.
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24 | (b) The Renewable Energy Resources and Coal Technology | ||||||
25 | Development
Assistance
Charge assessed by electric and gas | ||||||
26 | public utilities shall be considered a
charge
for public |
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1 | utility service.
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2 | (c) Fifty percent of the moneys collected pursuant to
this | ||||||
3 | Section shall be deposited in the Renewable Energy
Resources | ||||||
4 | Trust Fund by the Department of Revenue. The remaining 50 | ||||||
5 | percent
of the moneys
collected pursuant to this Section shall | ||||||
6 | be deposited in the
Coal Technology Development Assistance Fund | ||||||
7 | by the Department of Revenue
for use under the
Illinois Coal | ||||||
8 | Technology Development Assistance Act.
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9 | (d) By the 20th day of the month following the month in | ||||||
10 | which the charges
imposed by this Section were collected, each | ||||||
11 | utility
and alternative retail electric
supplier collecting | ||||||
12 | charges
pursuant to this Section shall remit
to the Department | ||||||
13 | of Revenue for deposit in the
Renewable Energy Resources Trust | ||||||
14 | Fund and the Coal Technology Development
Assistance Fund all
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15 | moneys received , except as provided in this subsection, as | ||||||
16 | payment of the
charge provided for in this
Section on a return | ||||||
17 | prescribed and furnished by the Department of Revenue
showing | ||||||
18 | such information as the Department of Revenue may reasonably | ||||||
19 | require.
A utility may deduct an amount from collected | ||||||
20 | receipts, not to exceed the
amount designated for the Renewable | ||||||
21 | Energy Resources Trust Fund, for expenses
incurred to develop, | ||||||
22 | maintain, and administer its net electricity metering
pilot | ||||||
23 | program required by Section 16-107.5 of the Public Utilities | ||||||
24 | Act. Such
expenses shall include the following, and are subject | ||||||
25 | to Illinois Commerce
Commission approval:
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26 | (1) expenses incurred to develop and submit a report of |
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1 | results of the
pilot programs to the Illinois Commerce | ||||||
2 | Commission;
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3 | (2) expenses incurred to install, maintain, and | ||||||
4 | operate metering required
to measure customer usage for the | ||||||
5 | purposes of administering the pilot program;
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6 | (3) expenses incurred to perform an interconnection | ||||||
7 | study and execute an
interconnection agreement with | ||||||
8 | customers in the pilot program;
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9 | (4) incremental expenses incurred to provide customers | ||||||
10 | a bill (costs above
those that are normally incurred to | ||||||
11 | provide customers a bill in the absence of
the pilot | ||||||
12 | program);
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13 | (5) to the extent that any credit for energy generated | ||||||
14 | that is paid to the
customer exceeds the energy credit | ||||||
15 | stated in utility's tariff filed in
compliance with 83 Ill. | ||||||
16 | Adm. Code 430.60,
the utility shall be entitled to a credit | ||||||
17 | on the difference between what is
paid to the customer and | ||||||
18 | what would have been paid using the utility tariff
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19 | described above; and
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20 | (6) expenses incurred to develop, file, and gain | ||||||
21 | approval of a net
electricity metering pilot program from | ||||||
22 | the Illinois Commerce Commission.
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23 | (e) The charges imposed by this Section shall only apply
to | ||||||
24 | customers of municipal electric or gas utilities and electric | ||||||
25 | or gas
cooperatives if the municipal electric or gas utility or | ||||||
26 | electric or
gas
cooperative makes an affirmative decision to |
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1 | impose the
charge.
If a municipal electric or gas utility or an | ||||||
2 | electric or gas cooperative
makes an
affirmative decision to | ||||||
3 | impose the charge provided by this Section, the
municipal
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4 | electric or gas utility or electric or gas cooperative shall | ||||||
5 | inform the
Department of
Revenue in writing of such decision | ||||||
6 | when it begins to impose the charge.
If a municipal electric or | ||||||
7 | gas utility or electric or gas
cooperative does not assess this | ||||||
8 | charge, its customers shall
not be eligible for the Renewable | ||||||
9 | Energy Resources Program.
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10 | (f) The Department of Revenue may establish such rules as | ||||||
11 | it deems
necessary to implement this Section.
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12 | (Source: P.A. 92-690, eff. 7-18-02.)
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13 | (20 ILCS 687/6-7)
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14 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 16, 2007)
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15 | Sec. 6-7. Repeal. The provisions of this Law are repealed | ||||||
16 | on December 31, 2008.
10
years after the effective date of this | ||||||
17 | amendatory Act of 1997
unless renewed by act of the General | ||||||
18 | Assembly .
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19 | (Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)
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20 | Section 10. The Public Utilities Act is amended by adding | ||||||
21 | Section 16-107.5
as
follows:
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22 | (220 ILCS 5/16-107.5 new)
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23 | Sec. 16-107.5. Net electricity metering pilot program.
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1 | (a) The Legislature finds and declares that a pilot program | ||||||
2 | to provide net
energy
metering, as defined in this Section,
for | ||||||
3 | eligible customers can encourage private investment in | ||||||
4 | renewable energy
resources, stimulate
economic growth, enhance | ||||||
5 | the continued diversification of Illinois' energy
resource | ||||||
6 | mix, and protect
the Illinois environment.
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7 | (b) As used in this Section, (i) "eligible customer" means | ||||||
8 | a retail
residential or business customer that owns and | ||||||
9 | operates a
solar or wind electrical generating facility with a | ||||||
10 | capacity of not more than
40 kilowatts that is
located on the | ||||||
11 | customer's premises and is intended primarily to offset part or
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12 | all of the customer's
own electrical requirements and (ii) "net | ||||||
13 | energy metering" means the
measurement, during the
billing | ||||||
14 | period applicable to an eligible customer, of the net amount of
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15 | electricity delivered by an
electric utility to the customer's | ||||||
16 | premises or provided to the electric utility
by the customer.
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17 | (c) An electric utility shall
establish a net electrical | ||||||
18 | energy metering pilot program for its eligible
customers.
An | ||||||
19 | electric utility shall establish separate
pilot programs for | ||||||
20 | its residential customers and its business customers.
However, | ||||||
21 | if an electric utility has conducted a net electrical energy
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22 | metering
pilot
program for either its residential customers or | ||||||
23 | its business customers, or
both, and the pilot program was | ||||||
24 | initiated before the effective date of this
amendatory Act of | ||||||
25 | the 95th General Assembly, the electric public utility need
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26 | only file the report required under subsection (d).
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1 | (d) An electric utility shall report the results of its | ||||||
2 | pilot programs to
the Illinois Commerce Commission by July 1, | ||||||
3 | 2008. The Commission shall provide a
summary and an analysis of | ||||||
4 | the reports to the General Assembly no later than
September 1, | ||||||
5 | 2008.
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6 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
7 | becoming law. |