Chapter 220 — UTILITIES

(220 ILCS 5/14-105) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 14-105) Sec. 14-105. Powers and duties. The jurisdiction, powers, and duties of the transit commission shall extend to: (a) the comprehensive unified local transportation system for which a permit is granted as mentioned in the foregoin…

(220 ILCS 5/14-106) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 14-106) Sec. 14-106. Proceedings before the Commission and in the courts. The provisions of Article X, Sections 4-201 through 4-205, Sections 5-201 through 5-203, and Section 9-252 of this Act, except as herein otherwise provided, shall…

(220 ILCS 5/14-107) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 14-107) Sec. 14-107. Powers of supervision, etc. Except as otherwise provided in this Article the transit commission shall have general supervision of the corporations owning or operating the comprehensive unified local transportation s…

(220 ILCS 5/14-108) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 14-108) Sec. 14-108. Transit Commission's powers to be regulatory. The powers and duties conferred and imposed upon the transit commission are to be taken and deemed powers and duties of reasonable and lawful public service regulation a…

(220 ILCS 5/14-109) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 14-109) Sec. 14-109. Transit Commission to supersede Illinois Commerce Commission. As concerns the comprehensive unified local transportation system and other local transportation facilities mentioned in the foregoing Section 14-105 and…

(220 ILCS 5/14-110) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 14-110) Sec. 14-110. Saving provisions. The creation of a transit commission under this Article shall not affect pending actions or proceedings instituted in any court under the provisions of this Act by or against any public utility co…

(220 ILCS 5/15-100) Sec. 15-100. Short Title. This Article may be cited as the Common Carrier by Pipeline Law. (Source: P.A. 89-42, eff. 1-1-96.)

(220 ILCS 5/15-101) Sec. 15-101. Application of Article. Except to the extent modified or supplemented by the specific provisions of this Article, Articles I to IV, Sections 5-101, 5-201, 5-202, 5-203, 8-101, 8-503, 8-509, 9-221, 9-222, 9-222.1, 9-222.2, and 9-250, and Article X …

(220 ILCS 5/15-102) Sec. 15-102. Application to natural gas and water common carriers by pipeline. Article VII of the Public Utilities Act is fully and equally applicable to transactions between common carriers of natural gas and water by pipeline and affiliated public utilities.…

(220 ILCS 5/15-103) Sec. 15-103. Application of carbon dioxide pipelines. This Article does not apply to a new carbon dioxide pipeline as defined in Section 10 of the Carbon Dioxide Transportation and Sequestration Act. (Source: P.A. 103-651, eff. 7-18-24.)

(220 ILCS 5/15-201) Sec. 15-201. Definitions. In this Law: "Common carrier by pipeline" means (1) a person or corporation that owns, controls, operates, or manages, within this State, directly or indirectly, equipment, facilities, or other property, or a franchise, permit, licens…

(220 ILCS 5/15-301) Sec. 15-301. Records and accounts. (a) Each common carrier by pipeline shall: (1) Keep written accounts and records of its revenues, expenses, contracts, and other activities subject to regulation under this Act in accordance with regulations prescribed by the…

(220 ILCS 5/15-401) Sec. 15-401. Licensing. (a) No person shall operate as a common carrier by pipeline unless the person possesses a certificate in good standing authorizing it to operate as a common carrier by pipeline. No person shall begin or continue construction of a pipeli…

(220 ILCS 5/15-501) Sec. 15-501. Published rates. No common carrier by pipeline shall render service until the carrier has in effect a tariff or schedule of rates applicable to service in compliance with this Act. No carrier shall render service under a license issued by the Comm…

(220 ILCS 5/15-502) Sec. 15-502. Effective dates of new or amended rates. The Commission shall prescribe the periods of notice that must elapse between the filing of a proposed rate and its proposed effective date. The Commission shall not prescribe a notice period greater than 4…

(220 ILCS 5/15-503) Sec. 15-503. (a) General requirement of filing, publication, and posting. Each common carrier by pipeline shall file, publish, and make available for public inspection its current tariffs. Copies of the tariffs shall be provided by the carrier to members of th…

(220 ILCS 5/15-504) Sec. 15-504. Rate proceedings. (a) Initiation of proceedings. The Commission may initiate a proceeding to investigate or prescribe tariffs or schedules on its own motion or complaint. (b) Suspension of tariffs. The Commission may suspend a tariff, in whole or …

(220 ILCS 5/15-505) Sec. 15-505. Ratemaking standards. Rates for common carrier by pipeline service must be just, reasonable, and not discriminatory. The Commission shall, in exercising its ratemaking powers, consider, among other factors, the inherent advantages of transportatio…

(220 ILCS 5/15-506) Sec. 15-506. Charges to conform to tariffs or schedules and orders of the Commission. (a) Overcharges and undercharges prohibited. No common carrier by pipeline shall offer, advertise, charge, demand, collect, or receive, in any manner, a greater, lesser, or d…

(220 ILCS 5/15-507) Sec. 15-507. Joint rates and routes. (a) Establishment by carriers. Two or more common carriers by pipeline may establish through routes and joint rates, provided that the rates, divisions, and practices relating thereto are just, reasonable, and not discrimin…

(220 ILCS 5/15-508) Sec. 15-508. Statute of limitations for charges. (a) Collection actions. Actions to collect charges under lawfully applicable rates must be instituted within 3 years after rendition of the service. (b) Reparations or overcharge proceedings. Petitions seeking r…

(220 ILCS 5/15-509) Sec. 15-509. Rules. The Commission may adopt standards and procedures to ensure that the rates of common carriers by pipeline are reasonable and not discriminatory. These regulations may provide for prescription of rates, or for publications subject to investi…

(220 ILCS 5/15-601) Sec. 15-601. Safety regulation. Each common carrier by pipeline shall construct, maintain, and operate all of its pipelines, related facilities, and equipment in this State in a manner that poses no undue risk to its employees, customers, or the public. The ob…

(220 ILCS 5/15-701) Sec. 15-701. Grandfather provision. All certificates of public convenience and necessity for common carrier by pipeline, tariffs and schedules, and findings, orders, decisions, rules, and regulations, issued under the repealed provisions of the Illinois Commer…

(220 ILCS 5/16-101) Sec. 16-101. Short title and applicability. (a) This Article may be cited as the Electric Service Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law of 1997 and shall apply to electric utilities and alternative retail electric suppliers as defined in this Article. Except to …

(220 ILCS 5/16-101A) Sec. 16-101A. Legislative findings. (a) The citizens and businesses of the State of Illinois have been well-served by a comprehensive electrical utility system which has provided safe, reliable, and affordable service. The electrical utility system in the Sta…

(220 ILCS 5/16-102) Sec. 16-102. Definitions. For the purposes of this Article the following terms shall be defined as set forth in this Section. "Alternative retail electric supplier" means every person, cooperative, corporation, municipal corporation, company, association, join…

(220 ILCS 5/16-103) Sec. 16-103. Service obligations of electric utilities. (a) An electric utility shall continue offering to retail customers each tariffed service that it offered as a distinct and identifiable service on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997 until …

(220 ILCS 5/16-103.1) Sec. 16-103.1. Tariffed service to Unit Owners' Associations. An electric utility that serves at least 2,000,000 customers must provide tariffed service to Unit Owners' Associations, as defined by Section 2 of the Condominium Property Act, for condominium pr…

(220 ILCS 5/16-103.2) Sec. 16-103.2. Market Settlement Service. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, an electric utility shall be permitted, at its election, to provide Market Settlement Service, which, for purposes of this Section, shall mean a tariffed, unbundled elect…

(220 ILCS 5/16-104) Sec. 16-104. Delivery services transition plan. An electric utility shall provide delivery services to retail customers in accordance with the provisions of this Section. (a) Each electric utility shall offer delivery services to retail customers located in it…

(220 ILCS 5/16-105) Sec. 16-105. Delivery services implementation plan. To ensure the safe and orderly implementation of delivery services, each electric utility shall submit to the Commission no later than March 1, 1999, a delivery services implementation plan for non-residentia…

(220 ILCS 5/16-105.10) Sec. 16-105.10. Independent baseline assessment. (a) Prior to the filing of the initial Multi-Year Integrated Grid Plan described in Section 16-105.17 of this Act, the General Assembly finds that an independent audit of the current state of the grid, and of…

(220 ILCS 5/16-105.17) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-458) Sec. 16-105.17. Multi-Year Integrated Grid Plan. (a) The General Assembly finds that ensuring alignment of regulated utility operations, expenditures, and investments with public benefit goals, including sa…

(220 ILCS 5/16-105.5) Sec. 16-105.5. Rate case filing and revenue-neutral rate design. (a) An electric utility that files a general rate case pursuant to Section 9-201 of this Act or a Multi-Year Rate Plan pursuant to Section 16-108.18 of this Act may omit the rate design compone…

(220 ILCS 5/16-105.6) Sec. 16-105.6. Amortization of charges or credits. (a) It is in the public interest to mitigate the customer bill impacts of large expenses incurred by electric utilities by directing that expenses exceeding the applicable threshold specified in this Section…

(220 ILCS 5/16-105.7) Sec. 16-105.7. Revenue balancing adjustments. (a) It is in the public interest to decouple electric utility sales and revenues, to mitigate the impact on utilities of energy savings goals, to mitigate a utility's disincentive to promote energy efficiency, an…

(220 ILCS 5/16-106) Sec. 16-106. Billing experiments. During the mandatory transition period, an electric utility may at its discretion conduct one or more experiments for the provision or billing of services on a consolidated or aggregated basis, for the provision of real-time p…

(220 ILCS 5/16-107) Sec. 16-107. Real-time pricing. (a) Each electric utility shall file, on or before May 1, 1998, a tariff or tariffs which allow nonresidential retail customers in the electric utility's service area to elect real-time pricing beginning October 1, 1998. (b) Eac…

(220 ILCS 5/16-107.5) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-458) Sec. 16-107.5. Net electricity metering. (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that a program to provide net electricity metering, as defined in this Section, for eligible customers can encourage priva…

(220 ILCS 5/16-107.6) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-458) Sec. 16-107.6. Distributed generation rebate. (a) In this Section: "Additive services" means the services that distributed energy resources provide to the energy system and society that are not (1) already i…

(220 ILCS 5/16-107.7) Sec. 16-107.7. Power price mitigation rebate. (a) Illinois electric utility customers have been impacted by unanticipated changes to electric power and capacity prices during a period of economic hardship associated with recent global events, including incre…

(220 ILCS 5/16-107.8) (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 16-107.8. Time-of-use pricing. (a) The General Assembly finds that market-based time-of-use rates and pricing plans can reduce costs and help the State achieve its energy po…

(220 ILCS 5/16-107.9) (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 16-107.9. Virtual power plant program. (a) As used in this Section: "Aggregator" means a third-party entity that participates in the program, other than the electric utility…

(220 ILCS 5/16-108) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-458) Sec. 16-108. Recovery of costs associated with the provision of delivery and other services. (a) An electric utility shall file a delivery services tariff with the Commission at least 210 days prior to the dat…

(220 ILCS 5/16-108.10) Sec. 16-108.10. Energy low-income and support program. Beginning in 2017, without obtaining any approvals from the Commission or any other agency, regardless of whether any such approval would otherwise be required, a participating utility that is not a com…

(220 ILCS 5/16-108.11) Sec. 16-108.11. Employment opportunities. To the extent feasible and consistent with State and federal law, the procurement of contracted labor, materials, and supplies by electric utilities in connection with the offering of delivery services under Article…

(220 ILCS 5/16-108.12) Sec. 16-108.12. Utility job training program. (a) An electric utility that serves more than 3,000,000 customers in the State shall spend $10,000,000 per year in 2017, 2021, and 2025 to fund the programs described in this Section. (1) The utility shall fund …

(220 ILCS 5/16-108.15) Sec. 16-108.15. Rate impacts. (a) Each electric utility that serves more than 500,000 retail customers in the State shall file with the Commission the reports required by this Section, which shall identify the actual and projected average monthly increases …

(220 ILCS 5/16-108.16) Sec. 16-108.16. Commercial Rate Impacts. (a) Each electric utility that serves more than 500,000 retail customers in the State shall file with the Commission the reports required by this Section, which shall identify the annual average increases due to futu…