Full Text of SB0680 95th General Assembly
SB0680 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 SB0680
Introduced 2/8/2007, by Sen. Michael Bond SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that electric utilities and
alternative retail electric suppliers
must provide "net metering" to retail customers that own and operate a solar
or wind electrical generating facility
with a capacity of not more than 40 kilowatts located on the customer's
premises and intended to offset part of the
customer's electrical requirements. Effective immediately. |
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by adding | 5 |
| Section 16-107.5 as
follows:
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| (220 ILCS 5/16-107.5 new)
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| Sec. 16-107.5. Net electricity metering.
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| (a) The Legislature finds and declares that a program to | 9 |
| provide net energy
metering, as defined in this Section,
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| eligible customers can encourage private investment in | 11 |
| renewable energy
resources, stimulate
economic growth, enhance | 12 |
| the continued diversification of Illinois' energy
resource | 13 |
| mix, and protect
the Illinois environment.
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| (b) As used in this Section, (i) "eligible customer" means | 15 |
| a retail
customer that owns and operates a
solar or wind | 16 |
| electrical generating facility with a capacity of not more than
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| 40 kilowatts that is
located on the customer's premises and is | 18 |
| intended primarily to offset part or
all of the customer's
own | 19 |
| electrical requirements and (ii) "net energy metering" means | 20 |
| the
measurement, during the
billing period applicable to an | 21 |
| eligible customer, of the net amount of
electricity delivered | 22 |
| by an
electric utility to the customer's premises or provided | 23 |
| to the electric utility
by the customer.
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| (c) An electric utility shall provide for, and bear the | 2 |
| costs of, meters,
meter fittings and associated
wiring in | 3 |
| excess of standard metering, and any other equipment on the | 4 |
| utility
side of the meter
required by the utility in order to | 5 |
| effect net energy metering.
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| (d) An electric utility and an alternative retail electric | 7 |
| supplier shall
measure and charge or credit for the net
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| electricity supplied to eligible customers or provided by | 9 |
| eligible customers in
the following manner:
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| (1) If the amount of electricity used by the customer | 11 |
| during the billing
period exceeds the
amount of electricity | 12 |
| produced by the customer, the electric utility or
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| alternative retail electric
supplier shall charge the | 14 |
| customer for the net electricity supplied to and used
by | 15 |
| the customer at the
same rates applicable to electricity | 16 |
| provided by the electric utility or
alternative retail | 17 |
| electric
supplier to other residential customers and small | 18 |
| commercial retail customers
of similar end-use
consumption | 19 |
| characteristics.
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| (2) If the amount of electricity produced by a customer | 21 |
| during the billing
period exceeds
the amount of electricity | 22 |
| used by the customer during that billing period, the
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| electric utility or
alternative electric supplier | 24 |
| supplying that customer shall apply a credit to
the next | 25 |
| bill for service to
the customer for the net electricity | 26 |
| supplied to the utility at the same rate,
including |
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| delivery charges,
applicable to electricity provided to | 2 |
| other residential customers and small
commercial retail
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| customers of similar end-use consumption characteristics. | 4 |
| The number of
kilowatt-hours credited
to the customer on | 5 |
| the bill in any given billing period shall not exceed the
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| amount of kilowatt-hours delivered to the customer by the | 7 |
| utility in that
billing period. The
balance of | 8 |
| kilowatt-hours
uncredited shall be carried forward and | 9 |
| applied to kilowatt-hours delivered to
the customer by the
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| utility in future billing periods.
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| (3) At the end of the year or annualized over the | 12 |
| period that service is
supplied by means of
net energy | 13 |
| metering, the electric utility or alternative retail | 14 |
| electric
supplier supplying a customer
shall promptly | 15 |
| issue payment at its avoided cost to the customer for the | 16 |
| value
of the balance of any
remaining uncredited | 17 |
| kilowatt-hours provided by the customer during the year
or | 18 |
| annualized period.
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| (e) An electric utility may use separate meters to measure | 20 |
| the gross amount
of electricity delivered by the
utility to the | 21 |
| customer and the electricity supplied to the utility by the
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| customer and may bill customers for
taxes, franchise charges, | 23 |
| or infrastructure maintenance fees, instrument
funding | 24 |
| charges, and decommissioning
charges applicable to the gross | 25 |
| amount of electricity delivered to the
customer, if the | 26 |
| electric utility does not
charge the customer for the |
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| installation or use of the separate meters in
excess of | 2 |
| standard metering.
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| (f) An electric utility may, instead of using separate | 4 |
| meters, use a single
meter to
measure the net amount of | 5 |
| electricity delivered to or from a customer during
the
billing | 6 |
| period.
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| (g) Within 3 months after the effective date of this | 8 |
| amendatory Act of the
95th General Assembly, the
Illinois | 9 |
| Commerce Commission shall establish standards for net energy
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| metering and the interconnection of solar
and wind electric | 11 |
| generating equipment to the utility system if the
Commission | 12 |
| determines that such standards are
necessary for safe and | 13 |
| adequate service and further the public policy set forth
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| this Section. The standards shall
conform to the "Recommended | 15 |
| Practice for Utility Interface, of Photo-voltaic
Systems" set | 16 |
| forth by the IEEE
(Institute of Electrical and Electronic | 17 |
| Engineers). If a utility desires
equipment or standards in | 18 |
| excess of these
standards, the utility shall bear the costs of | 19 |
| those additional standards.
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| (h) Before February 1, 2008, the Illinois Commerce | 21 |
| Commission shall
determine
how alternative retail
electric | 22 |
| suppliers will be required to credit delivery service charges.
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| (i) All electric utilities shall begin to offer net energy | 24 |
| metering
no later than April 1,
2008.
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| (j) All alternative retail electric suppliers shall begin | 26 |
| to offer net
energy metering no
later than April 1, 2008.
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| (k) An electric utility and an alternative retail electric | 2 |
| supplier must
offer net energy metering to eligible
customers | 3 |
| until the load of its net energy metering customers equals 0.1% | 4 |
| of
the total peak demand supplied by
that electric utility or | 5 |
| alternative retail electric supplier during the
previous year. | 6 |
| Electric utilities and alternative
retail electric suppliers | 7 |
| are authorized to offer net energy metering beyond
the 0.1% | 8 |
| level if they so choose.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 10 |
| becoming law. |
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