Full Text of HB4751 103rd General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning regulation. | 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 | | represented in the General Assembly: | 4 | | Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 8-402.2 as follows: | 6 | | (220 ILCS 5/8-402.2) | 7 | | Sec. 8-402.2. Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment | 8 | | programs. | 9 | | (a) Within one year after the effective date of this | 10 | | amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly, each electric | 11 | | utility serving over 500,000 retail customers in this State | 12 | | shall implement a Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment | 13 | | program. | 14 | | (b) Each utility's Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment | 15 | | program shall include the following requirements: | 16 | | (1) Each plan shall be designed to offer within the | 17 | | utility's service territory to assist public schools, as | 18 | | defined by Section 1-3 of the School Code, to increase the | 19 | | efficiency of their energy usage, to reduce the carbon | 20 | | emissions associated with their energy usage, and to move | 21 | | toward a goal of public schools being carbon-free in their | 22 | | energy usage by 2030. The program shall include a target | 23 | | of completing Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment for |
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| 1 | | all public schools in the utility's service territory by | 2 | | December 31, 2029. | 3 | | (2) The Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment shall be | 4 | | a generally standardized assessment, but may incorporate | 5 | | flexibility to reflect the circumstances of individual | 6 | | public schools and public school districts. | 7 | | (3) The Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment shall | 8 | | include, but not be limited to, comprehensive analyses of | 9 | | the following subjects: | 10 | | (A) The top energy efficiency savings | 11 | | opportunities for the public school, by energy saved; | 12 | | (B) The total achievable solar energy potential on | 13 | | or nearby a public school's premises and able to | 14 | | provide power to a school; | 15 | | (C) The infrastructure required to support | 16 | | electrification of the facility's space heating and | 17 | | water heating needs; | 18 | | (D) The infrastructure requirements to support | 19 | | electrification of a school's transportation needs; | 20 | | and | 21 | | (E) The investments required to achieve a WELL | 22 | | Certification or similar certification as determined | 23 | | through methods developed and updated by the | 24 | | International WELL Building Institute or similar or | 25 | | successor organizations. | 26 | | (4) The Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment also |
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| 1 | | shall include, but not be limited to, mechanical | 2 | | insulation evaluation inspection and inspection of the | 3 | | building envelope(s). | 4 | | (5) With respect to those public school construction | 5 | | projects for public schools within the service territory | 6 | | of a utility serving over 500,000 retail customers in this | 7 | | State and for which a public school district applies for a | 8 | | grant under Section 5-40 of the School Construction Law on | 9 | | or after June 1, 2023, the district must submit a copy of | 10 | | the applicable Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment | 11 | | report, or, if no such Public Schools Carbon-Free | 12 | | Assessment has been performed, request the applicable | 13 | | utility to perform such a Public Schools Carbon-Free | 14 | | Assessment and submit a copy of the Public Schools | 15 | | Carbon-Free Assessment report promptly when it becomes | 16 | | available. The Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment | 17 | | report shall include, but not limited to, an energy audit | 18 | | of both the building envelope and the building's | 19 | | mechanical insulation system. It shall also include an | 20 | | inspection of both the building envelope and the | 21 | | mechanical insulation system. The district must | 22 | | demonstrate how the construction project is designed and | 23 | | managed to achieve the goals that all public elementary | 24 | | and secondary school facilities in the State are able to | 25 | | be powered by clean energy by 2030, and for such | 26 | | facilities to achieve carbon-free energy sources for space |
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| 1 | | heat, water heat, and transportation by 2050. | 2 | | (6) The results of each Public Schools Carbon-Free | 3 | | Assessment shall be memorialized by the utility or by a | 4 | | third party acting on behalf of the utility in a | 5 | | non-confidential report form that includes recommendations | 6 | | and redacts all confidential information . For purposes of | 7 | | this Section, "confidential information" means information | 8 | | or facts expected and intended to be exempt from | 9 | | disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. | 10 | | "Confidential information" does not include program | 11 | | offerings, solar opportunities, health and safety | 12 | | certifications, energy efficiency recommendations, | 13 | | information about transportation and other funding | 14 | | offerings. The non-confidential form and shall be provided | 15 | | to the applicable public school by the utility or the | 16 | | third party acting on behalf of the utility . Each utility | 17 | | shall be required to retain a copy of each Public Schools | 18 | | Carbon-Free Assessment report and to provide copies of | 19 | | each non-confidential report to the Illinois Power Agency | 20 | | and the Illinois Capital Development Board within 3 months | 21 | | after of its completion. The Illinois Power Agency shall | 22 | | promptly make the results of each non-confidential report | 23 | | available for public inspection on its website. | 24 | | (7) The Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment shall be | 25 | | conducted in coordination with each utility's energy | 26 | | efficiency and demand-response plans under Sections 8-103, |
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| 1 | | 8-103A, and 8-103B of this Act, to the extent applicable. | 2 | | Nothing in this Section is intended to modify or require | 3 | | modification of those plans. However, the utility may | 4 | | request a modification of a plan approved by the | 5 | | Commission, and the Commission may approve the requested | 6 | | modification, if the modification is consistent with the | 7 | | provisions of this Section and Section 8-103B of this Act. | 8 | | (8) If there are no other providers of assessments | 9 | | that are substantively the same as those being performed | 10 | | by utilities pursuant to this Section by 2024, a utility | 11 | | that has a Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment program | 12 | | may offer assessments to public schools that are not | 13 | | served by a utility subject to this Section at the | 14 | | utility's cost. | 15 | | (9) The Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment shall be | 16 | | offered to and performed for public schools in the | 17 | | utility's service territory on a complimentary basis by | 18 | | each utility, with no Assessment fee charged to the public | 19 | | schools for the Assessments. Nothing in this Section is | 20 | | intended to prohibit the utility from recovering through | 21 | | rates approved by the Commission the utility's prudent and | 22 | | reasonable costs of complying with this Section. | 23 | | (10) Utilities shall make efforts to prioritize the | 24 | | completion of Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessments for | 25 | | the following school districts by December 31, 2022: East | 26 | | St. Louis School District 189, Harvey School District 152, |
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| 1 | | Thornton Township High School District 205. Utilities | 2 | | shall also prioritize the completion of Public Schools | 3 | | Carbon-Free Assessments for schools located within | 4 | | environmental justice communities or schools that are | 5 | | categorized as a Tier 1 or Tier 2 school based on the | 6 | | latest annual evidence-based funding distribution process | 7 | | by the State Board of Education. | 8 | | (Source: P.A. 102-662, eff. 9-15-21; 102-1123, eff. 1-27-23.) |
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