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| 1 | AN ACT concerning utilities.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing | ||||||
| 5 | Section 16-127 as follows:
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| 6 | (220 ILCS 5/16-127)
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| 7 | Sec. 16-127. Environmental disclosure.
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| 8 | (a) Effective January 1, 2013 1999, every electric utility | ||||||
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alternative retail electric supplier shall provide the
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| 10 | following information, to the maximum extent practicable, with
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| 11 | its bills to its customers on a quarterly basis:
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| 12 | (i) the known sources of electricity supplied,
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| 13 | broken-out by percentages, of biomass power, coal-fired
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| 14 | power, hydro power, natural gas-fired power, nuclear
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| 15 | power, oil-fired power, solar power, wind power and other
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| 16 | resources, respectively;
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| 17 | (ii) a pie-chart that graphically depicts the
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| 18 | percentages of the sources of the electricity supplied as
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| 19 | set forth in subparagraph (i) of this subsection; and
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| 20 | (iii) a pie-chart that graphically depicts the | ||||||
| 21 | quantity of renewable energy resources procured pursuant | ||||||
| 22 | to Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power Agency Act as a | ||||||
| 23 | percentage of electricity supplied to serve eligible | ||||||
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| 1 | retail customers as defined in Section 16-111.5(a) of this | ||||||
| 2 | Act.
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| 3 | (b) In addition, every electric utility and alternative
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| 4 | retail electric supplier shall provide, to the maximum extent
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| 5 | practicable, with its bills to its customers on a quarterly
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| 6 | basis, a standardized chart in a format to be determined by
the | ||||||
| 7 | Commission in a rule following notice and hearings which
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| 8 | provides the amounts of carbon dioxide,
nitrogen oxides
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| 9 | sulfur dioxide emissions and nuclear waste
attributable to the | ||||||
| 10 | known sources of electricity supplied as
set forth in | ||||||
| 11 | subparagraph (i) of subsection (a) of this
Section.
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| 12 | (c) The electric utilities and alternative retail
electric | ||||||
| 13 | suppliers may provide their customers with such other
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| 14 | information as they believe relevant to the information
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| 15 | required in subsections (a) and (b) of this Section. All of the | ||||||
| 16 | information required in subsections (a) and (b) of this Section | ||||||
| 17 | shall be made available by the electric utilities or | ||||||
| 18 | alternative retail electric suppliers either in an electronic | ||||||
| 19 | medium, such as on a website or by electronic mail, or through | ||||||
| 20 | the U.S. Postal Service.
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| 21 | (d) For the purposes of subsection (a) of this Section,
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| 22 | "biomass" means dedicated crops grown for energy production
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| 23 | organic wastes.
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| 24 | (e) All of the information provided in subsections (a)
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| 25 | (b) of this Section shall be presented to the Commission
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| 26 | inclusion in its World Wide Web Site.
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| 1 | (Source: P.A. 95-481, eff. 8-28-07.)
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| 2 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on | ||||||
| 3 | January 1, 2013.
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