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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2081

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 2081  on  page  1,
 3    line 4, by changing "by" to "by changing Section 16-102 and";
 4    and

 5    on   page  1  by  inserting  immediately  below  line  5  the
 6    following:

 7        "(220 ILCS 5/16-102)
 8        Sec. 16-102.  Definitions.   For  the  purposes  of  this
 9    Article  the following terms shall be defined as set forth in
10    this Section.
11        "Alternative  retail  electric  supplier"   means   every
12    person,   cooperative,  corporation,  municipal  corporation,
13    company, association, joint  stock  company  or  association,
14    firm,   partnership,   individual,  or  other  entity,  their
15    lessees,  trustees,  or  receivers  appointed  by  any  court
16    whatsoever, that offers electric power or  energy  for  sale,
17    lease  or in exchange for other value received to one or more
18    retail  customers,  or  that  engages  in  the  delivery   or
19    furnishing  of  electric  power  or  energy  to  such  retail
20    customers,  and shall include, without limitation, resellers,
21    aggregators and power marketers, but shall  not  include  (i)
22    electric  utilities  (or any agent of the electric utility to
 
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 1    the extent the electric utility provides tariffed services to
 2    retail customers  through  that  agent),  (ii)  any  electric
 3    cooperative  or municipal system as defined in Section 17-100
 4    to the extent that  the  electric  cooperative  or  municipal
 5    system  is  serving retail customers within any area in which
 6    it is or would be entitled to provide service under  the  law
 7    in  effect  immediately  prior  to the effective date of this
 8    amendatory Act of 1997, (iii) a public utility that is  owned
 9    and operated by any public institution of higher education of
10    this  State, or a public utility that is owned by such public
11    institution of higher education and operated by  any  of  its
12    lessees  or  operating agents, within any area in which it is
13    or would be entitled to provide  service  under  the  law  in
14    effect  immediately  prior  to  the  effective  date  of this
15    amendatory Act of 1997, (iv) a retail customer to the  extent
16    that customer obtains its electric power and energy from that
17    customer's  own  cogeneration  or self-generation facilities,
18    (v) an entity that owns, operates, sells, or arranges for the
19    installation   of   a   customer's   own   cogeneration    or
20    self-generation facilities, but only to the extent the entity
21    is   engaged   in   owning,  selling  or  arranging  for  the
22    installation of such facility,  or operating the facility  on
23    behalf of such customer, provided however that any such third
24    party  owner or operator of a facility built after January 1,
25    1999, complies with the labor provisions of Section 16-128(a)
26    as  though  such  third  party  were  an  alternative  retail
27    electric supplier, or (vi)  an  industrial  or  manufacturing
28    customer  that  owns  its own distribution facilities, to the
29    extent  that  the  customer  provides   service   from   that
30    distribution  system  to  a third-party contractor located on
31    the customer's premises that is integrally and  predominantly
32    engaged   in   the  customer's  industrial  or  manufacturing
33    process; provided, that if the  industrial  or  manufacturing
34    customer  has  elected  delivery services, the customer shall
 
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 1    pay transition charges applicable to the electric  power  and
 2    energy  consumed  by  the  third-party contractor unless such
 3    charges are otherwise paid by  the  third  party  contractor,
 4    which shall be calculated based on the usage of, and the base
 5    rates  or  the  contract rates applicable to, the third-party
 6    contractor in accordance with Section 16-102.
 7        "Base rates" means the rates for those tariffed  services
 8    that  the  electric  utility is required to offer pursuant to
 9    subsection (a) of Section 16-103 and that were identified  in
10    a  rate  order  for collection of the electric utility's base
11    rate revenue requirement, excluding  (i)  separate  automatic
12    rate  adjustment  riders  then  in  effect,  (ii)  special or
13    negotiated contract rates, (iii)  delivery  services  tariffs
14    filed  pursuant to Section 16-108, (iv) real-time pricing, or
15    (v) tariffs that were in effect prior to October 1, 1996  and
16    that  based  charges  for  services on an index or average of
17    other utilities' charges, but including (vi)  any  subsequent
18    redesign   of  such  rates  for  tariffed  services  that  is
19    authorized by the Commission after notice and hearing.
20        "Competitive service" includes (i) any service  that  has
21    been declared to be competitive pursuant to Section 16-113 of
22    this  Act,  (ii)  contract service, and (iii) services, other
23    than  tariffed  services,  that  are  related  to,  but   not
24    necessary  for, the provision of electric power and energy or
25    delivery services.
26        "Contract service"  means  (1)  services,  including  the
27    provision  of  electric  power  and energy or other services,
28    that are provided by mutual  agreement  between  an  electric
29    utility and a retail customer that is located in the electric
30    utility's  service  area,  provided  that,  delivery services
31    shall not be a  contract  service  until  such  services  are
32    declared  competitive  pursuant  to  Section 16-113; and also
33    means (2) the provision of electric power and  energy  by  an
34    electric  utility  to  retail  customers outside the electric
 
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 1    utility's service area pursuant to Section 16-116.  Provided,
 2    however, contract service does not include  electric  utility
 3    services  provided  pursuant  to  (i)  contracts  that retail
 4    customers are required to execute as a condition of receiving
 5    tariffed  services,  or  (ii)  special  or  negotiated   rate
 6    contracts  for  electric  utility  services that were entered
 7    into between an electric utility and a retail customer  prior
 8    to  the  effective  date  of  this amendatory Act of 1997 and
 9    filed with the Commission.
10        "Delivery services" means those services provided by  the
11    electric   utility  that  are  necessary  in  order  for  the
12    transmission and distribution systems  to  function  so  that
13    retail  customers  located  in the electric utility's service
14    area can receive electric power  and  energy  from  suppliers
15    other  than  the electric utility, and shall include, without
16    limitation, standard metering and billing services.
17        "Electric utility" means a public utility, as defined  in
18    Section  3-105  of  this  Act, that has a franchise, license,
19    permit or right to furnish  or  sell  electricity  to  retail
20    customers within a service area.
21        "Mandatory  transition  period" means the period from the
22    effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997 through January
23    1, 2007 2005.
24        "Municipal system" shall have the meaning  set  forth  in
25    Section 17-100.
26        "Real-time  pricing" means charges for delivered electric
27    power and energy that  vary  on  an  hour-to-hour  basis  for
28    nonresidential  retail  customers and that vary on a periodic
29    basis during the day for residential retail customers.
30        "Retail customer" means a single  entity  using  electric
31    power  or energy at a single premises and that (A) either (i)
32    is receiving or is eligible to receive tariffed services from
33    an electric utility,  or (ii) that is served by  a  municipal
34    system  or  electric cooperative within any area in which the
 
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 1    municipal system or  electric  cooperative  is  or  would  be
 2    entitled   to   provide  service  under  the  law  in  effect
 3    immediately prior to the effective date  of  this  amendatory
 4    Act  of 1997, or (B) an entity which on the effective date of
 5    this Act was receiving electric service from a public utility
 6    and  (i)  was  engaged  in  the   practice  of   resale   and
 7    redistribution of such electricity within a building prior to
 8    January  2,  1957, or (ii) was providing lighting services to
 9    tenants in a multi-occupancy building, but only to the extent
10    such resale, redistribution or lighting service is authorized
11    by the electric utility's tariffs that were on file with  the
12    Commission on the effective date of this Act.
13        "Service area" means (i) the geographic area within which
14    an electric utility was lawfully entitled to provide electric
15    power and energy to retail customers as of the effective date
16    of  this  amendatory  Act  of  1997,  and  includes  (ii) the
17    location of any retail customer to which the electric utility
18    was lawfully providing  electric  utility  services  on  such
19    effective date.
20        "Small    commercial   retail   customer"   means   those
21    nonresidential  retail  customers  of  an  electric   utility
22    consuming   15,000  kilowatt-hours  or  less  of  electricity
23    annually in its service area.
24        "Tariffed service"  means  services  provided  to  retail
25    customers  by  an electric utility as defined by its rates on
26    file with  the  Commission  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
27    Article  IX  of  this  Act, but shall not include competitive
28    services.
29        "Transition charge" means a charge expressed in cents per
30    kilowatt-hour that is calculated for a customer or  class  of
31    customers  as  follows  for  each  year  in which an electric
32    utility is entitled to recover transition charges as provided
33    in Section 16-108:
34             (1)  the amount of revenue that an electric  utility
 
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 1        would receive from the retail customer or customers if it
 2        were  serving  such  customers' electric power and energy
 3        requirements as a tariffed service based on  (A)  all  of
 4        the  customers' actual usage during the 3 years ending 90
 5        days prior to the date on which such customers were first
 6        eligible  for  delivery  services  pursuant  to   Section
 7        16-104,  and  (B)  on  (i)  the  base  rates in effect on
 8        October 1, 1996 (adjusted for the reductions required  by
 9        subsection  (b)  of  Section  16-111,  for  any reduction
10        resulting from a rate decrease under  Section  16-101(b),
11        for  any  restatement  of  base rates made in conjunction
12        with  an  elimination  of  the  fuel  adjustment   clause
13        pursuant  to subsection (b), (d), or (f) of Section 9-220
14        and for any removal of decommissioning  costs  from  base
15        rates  pursuant  to  Section  16-114)  and  any  separate
16        automatic   rate   adjustment   riders   (other   than  a
17        decommissioning rate as defined in Section 16-114)  under
18        which  the  customers  were  receiving  or, had they been
19        customers, would have received electric power and  energy
20        from  the  electric  utility  during the year immediately
21        preceding the date on which  such  customers  were  first
22        eligible for delivery service pursuant to Section 16-104,
23        or  (ii)  to  the  extent applicable, any contract rates,
24        including  contracts  or  rates   for   consolidated   or
25        aggregated  billing,  under  which  such  customers  were
26        receiving  electric  power  and  energy from the electric
27        utility during such year;
28             (2)  less the amount of revenue, other than  revenue
29        from  transition  charges and decommissioning rates, that
30        the electric  utility  would  receive  from  such  retail
31        customers  for delivery services provided by the electric
32        utility, assuming such  customers  were  taking  delivery
33        services  for  all  of their usage, based on the delivery
34        services tariffs in effect during the year for which  the
 
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 1        transition  charge  is  being calculated and on the usage
 2        identified in paragraph (1);
 3             (3)  less the market value for  the  electric  power
 4        and  energy  that the electric utility would have used to
 5        supply all of such customers' electric power  and  energy
 6        requirements,  as  a tariffed service, based on the usage
 7        identified in  paragraph  (1),  with  such  market  value
 8        determined in accordance with Section 16-112 of this Act;
 9             (4)  less  the following amount which represents the
10        amount to be attributed to new revenue sources  and  cost
11        reductions by the electric utility through the end of the
12        period  for which transition costs are recovered pursuant
13        to Section 16-108, referred to in this Article XVI  as  a
14        "mitigation factor":
15                  (A)  for  nonresidential  retail  customers, an
16             amount equal to the greater of  (i)  0.5  cents  per
17             kilowatt-hour  during  the  period  October  1, 1999
18             through   December   31,   2004,   0.6   cents   per
19             kilowatt-hour in calendar year 2005, and  0.9  cents
20             per  kilowatt-hour in calendar year 2006, multiplied
21             in each year by the usage  identified  in  paragraph
22             (1),  or  (ii)  an  amount  equal  to  the following
23             percentages of the amount produced by  applying  the
24             applicable  base  rates  (adjusted  as  described in
25             subparagraph (1)(B)) or contract rate to  the  usage
26             identified  in  paragraph  (1):  8%  for  the period
27             October 1, 1999 through December 31,  2002,  10%  in
28             calendar  years  2003 and 2004, 11% in calendar year
29             2005 and 12% in calendar year 2006; and
30                  (B)  for  residential  retail   customers,   an
31             amount  equal  to  the  following percentages of the
32             amount produced by applying the base rates in effect
33             on  October  1,  1996  (adjusted  as  described   in
34             subparagraph  (1)(B))  to  the  usage  identified in
 
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 1             paragraph (1): (i)  6%  from  May  1,  2002  through
 2             December  31,  2002,  (ii) 7% in calendar years 2003
 3             and 2004, (iii) 8% in calendar year 2005,  and  (iv)
 4             10% in calendar year 2006;
 5             (5)  divided   by   the   usage  of  such  customers
 6        identified in paragraph (1),
 7    provided that the transition charge shall never be less  than
 8    zero.
 9        "Unbundled service" means a component or constituent part
10    of a tariffed service which the electric utility subsequently
11    offers separately to its customers.
12    (Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97; 91-50, eff. 6-30-99.)".

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