Executive Committee

Filed: 5/28/2008

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 878

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 878 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, and
5 Coal Resources Development Law of 1997 is amended by changing
6 Section 6-2 as follows:
 
7     (20 ILCS 687/6-2)
8     (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 12, 2015)
9     Sec. 6-2. Findings and intent. The The General Assembly
10 finds and declares that it is desirable to obtain the
11 environmental quality, public health, and fuel diversity
12 benefits of developing new renewable energy resources and clean
13 coal technologies for use in Illinois and to lower the cost of
14 renewable energy resources and clean coal resources provided to
15 utility consumers. The General Assembly finds and declares that
16 the benefits of electricity from renewable energy resources and

 

 

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1 clean coal technologies accrue to the public at large, thus
2 consumers and electric utilities and alternative retail
3 electric suppliers share an interest in developing and using a
4 significant level of these environmentally preferable
5 resources in the State's electricity supply portfolio. The
6 General Assembly finds and declares that encouraging energy
7 efficiency will improve the environmental quality and public
8 health in the State of Illinois.
9 (Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)".