Chapter 220 — UTILITIES

(220 ILCS 5/16-108.18) Sec. 16-108.18. Performance-based ratemaking. (a) The General Assembly finds: (1) That improving the alignment of utility customer and company interests is critical to ensuring equity, rapid growth of distributed energy resources, electric vehicles, and oth…

(220 ILCS 5/16-108.19) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-458) Sec. 16-108.19. Division of Integrated Distribution Planning. (a) The Commission shall establish the Division of Integrated Distribution Planning within the Bureau of Public Utilities. The Division shall be…

(220 ILCS 5/16-108.20) Sec. 16-108.20. Cost-effectiveness incentive. (a) The General Assembly finds that it is critical to maintain this focus on utility bill affordability as the State transitions to a clean energy economy. The General Assembly accordingly finds that it may be i…

(220 ILCS 5/16-108.21) Sec. 16-108.21. Accelerated repayment of excess deferred income tax. (a) The General Assembly finds: (1) That a portion of each utility's compensation from ratepayers is attributable to reimbursement for federal taxes paid by the utility. (2) Due to the ena…

(220 ILCS 5/16-108.25) Sec. 16-108.25. Tariff regarding transition in rates. Each electric utility that files a Multi-Year Rate Plan pursuant to Section 16-108.18 of this Act or a general rate case as described in this Act shall also file a tariff that sets forth the processes an…

(220 ILCS 5/16-108.30) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-458) Sec. 16-108.30. Energy Transition Assistance Fund. (a) The Energy Transition Assistance Fund is hereby created as a special fund in the State Treasury. The Energy Transition Assistance Fund is authorized to…

(220 ILCS 5/16-108.5) Sec. 16-108.5. Infrastructure investment and modernization; regulatory reform. (a) (Blank). (b) For purposes of this Section, "participating utility" means an electric utility or a combination utility serving more than 1,000,000 customers in Illinois that vo…

(220 ILCS 5/16-108.6) Sec. 16-108.6. Provisions relating to Smart Grid Advanced Metering Infrastructure Deployment Plan. (a) For purposes of this Section and Sections 16-108.7 and 16-108.8 of this Act: "Advanced Metering Infrastructure" or "AMI" means the communications hardware …

(220 ILCS 5/16-108.7) Sec. 16-108.7. Illinois Science and Energy Innovation Trust. (a) Within 90 days of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, the members of the Smart Grid Advisory Council established pursuant to Section 16-108.6 of this Act, or…

(220 ILCS 5/16-108.8) Sec. 16-108.8. Illinois Smart Grid test bed. (a) Within 180 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, each participating utility, as defined by Section 16-108.5 of this Act, shall create or otherwise designate a Smart…

(220 ILCS 5/16-109) Sec. 16-109. Unbundling of delivery services; Commission review. The General Assembly finds that the offering of delivery services will, and is intended to, facilitate the development of competition for generation services, and that competition may develop for…

(220 ILCS 5/16-109A) Sec. 16-109A. Unbundling of prices for tariffed services; Commission investigation. In addition to the unbundling authorized under Sections 16-108 and 16-109, the Commission shall have the authority to investigate the need for, and to require, the restructuri…

(220 ILCS 5/16-110) Sec. 16-110. Delivery services customer power purchase options. (a) Each electric utility shall offer a tariffed service or services in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Section pursuant to which its non-residential delivery services c…

(220 ILCS 5/16-111) Sec. 16-111. Rates and restructuring transactions during mandatory transition period; restructuring and other transactions. (a) During the mandatory transition period, notwithstanding any provision of Article IX of this Act, and except as provided in subsectio…

(220 ILCS 5/16-111.1) Sec. 16-111.1. Illinois Clean Energy Community Trust. (a) An electric utility which has sold or transferred generating facilities in a transaction to which subsection (k) of Section 16-111 applies is authorized to establish an Illinois clean energy community…

(220 ILCS 5/16-111.10) Sec. 16-111.10. Equitable Energy Upgrade Program. (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that Illinois homes and businesses can contribute to the creation of a clean energy economy, conservation of natural resources, and reliability of the electricity …

(220 ILCS 5/16-111.11) Sec. 16-111.11. Supplier diversity reporting for non-utilities. (a) The following entities shall submit an annual supplier diversity report to the Commission for a given year: (1) entities that received a contract to provide more than 10,000 renewable energ…

(220 ILCS 5/16-111.2) Sec. 16-111.2. Provisions related to proposed utility transactions. (a) The General Assembly finds: (1) A transaction as described in paragraph (3) of this subsection (a) will contribute to improved reliability of the electric supply system in Illinois which…

(220 ILCS 5/16-111.3) Sec. 16-111.3. Transition period earnings calculations. At such time as the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ceases to include the monthly average yields of 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds in its weekly H.15 Statistical Release or successor publi…

(220 ILCS 5/16-111.5) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-458) Sec. 16-111.5. Provisions relating to procurement. (a) An electric utility that on December 31, 2005 served at least 100,000 customers in Illinois shall procure power and energy for its eligible retail custo…

(220 ILCS 5/16-111.5A) Sec. 16-111.5A. Provisions relating to electric rate relief. (a) The General Assembly finds that action must be taken in order to mitigate the 2007 electric rate increases approved for residential and certain nonresidential customers served by the State's l…

(220 ILCS 5/16-111.5B) Sec. 16-111.5B. Provisions relating to energy efficiency procurement. (a) Procurement plans prepared and filed pursuant to Section 16-111.5 of this Act during the years 2012 through 2015 shall be subject to the following additional requirements: (1) The ana…

(220 ILCS 5/16-111.6) Sec. 16-111.6. Termination of utility service to electric space-heating customers. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any other law to the contrary, a public utility that, on December 31, 2005, served more than 100,000 electric customers in I…

(220 ILCS 5/16-111.7) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-458) (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027) Sec. 16-111.7. On-bill financing program; electric utilities. (a) The Illinois General Assembly finds that Illinois homes and businesses have the potenti…

(220 ILCS 5/16-111.8) Sec. 16-111.8. Automatic adjustment clause tariff; uncollectibles. (a) An electric utility shall be permitted, at its election, to recover through an automatic adjustment clause tariff the incremental difference between its actual uncollectible amount as set…

(220 ILCS 5/16-111.9) Sec. 16-111.9. Rate relief; electricity suppliers. On and after August 14, 2009 (the effective date of Public Act 96-533), any electric utility providing rate relief pursuant to Section 16-111.5A of this Act shall not deem any residential or non-residential …

(220 ILCS 5/16-112) Sec. 16-112. Determination of market value. (a) The market value to be used in the calculation of transition charges as defined in Section 16-102 shall be determined in accordance with either (i) a tariff that has been filed by the electric utility with the Co…

(220 ILCS 5/16-113) Sec. 16-113. Declaration of service as a competitive service. (a) An electric utility may, by petition, request the Commission to declare a tariffed service that is provided by the electric utility, and that has not otherwise been declared to be competitive, t…

(220 ILCS 5/16-114) Sec. 16-114. Recovery of decommissioning charges. On or before April 1, 1999, each electric utility owning an interest in, or having responsibility as a matter of contract or statute for decommissioning costs as defined in Section 8-508.1 of, one or more nucle…

(220 ILCS 5/16-114.1) Sec. 16-114.1. Recovery of decommissioning costs in connection with nuclear power plant sale agreement. (a) An electric utility owning a single-unit nuclear power plant located in this State which enters into an agreement to sell the nuclear power plant and …

(220 ILCS 5/16-115) Sec. 16-115. Certification of alternative retail electric suppliers. (a) Any alternative retail electric supplier must obtain a certificate of service authority from the Commission in accordance with this Section before serving any retail customer or other use…

(220 ILCS 5/16-115A) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-458) Sec. 16-115A. Obligations of alternative retail electric suppliers. (a) An alternative retail electric supplier: (i) shall comply with the requirements imposed on public utilities by Sections 8-201 through 8-…

(220 ILCS 5/16-115B) Sec. 16-115B. Commission oversight of services provided by alternative retail electric suppliers. (a) The Commission shall have jurisdiction in accordance with the provisions of Article X of this Act to entertain and dispose of any complaint made by the Commi…

(220 ILCS 5/16-115C) Sec. 16-115C. Licensure of agents, brokers, and consultants engaged in the procurement or sale of retail electricity supply for third parties. (a) The purpose of this Section is to adopt licensing and code of conduct rules in a competitive retail electricity …

(220 ILCS 5/16-115D) Sec. 16-115D. Renewable portfolio standard for alternative retail electric suppliers and electric utilities operating outside their service territories. (a) An alternative retail electric supplier shall be responsible for procuring cost-effective renewable en…

(220 ILCS 5/16-115E) Sec. 16-115E. Alternative retail electric supplier utility assistance recipient. (a) Beginning January 1, 2020, an alternative retail electric supplier shall not knowingly submit an enrollment to change a customer's electric supplier if the electric utility's…

(220 ILCS 5/16-116) Sec. 16-116. Commission oversight of electric utilities serving retail customers outside their service areas or providing competitive, non-tariffed services. (a) An electric utility that has a tariff on file for delivery services may, without regard to any oth…

(220 ILCS 5/16-117) Sec. 16-117. Commission consumer education program. (a) The restructuring of the electricity industry will create a new electricity market with new marketers and sellers offering new goods and services, many of which the average consumer will not be able to re…

(220 ILCS 5/16-118) Sec. 16-118. Services provided by electric utilities to alternative retail electric suppliers. (a) It is in the best interest of Illinois energy consumers to promote fair and open competition in the provision of electric power and energy and to prevent anticom…

(220 ILCS 5/16-119) Sec. 16-119. Switching suppliers. An electric utility or an alternative retail electric supplier may establish a term of service, notice period for terminating service and provisions governing early termination through a tariff or contract. A customer may chan…

(220 ILCS 5/16-119A) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-458) Sec. 16-119A. Functional separation. (a) Within 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997, the Commission shall open a rulemaking proceeding to establish standards of conduct for every e…

(220 ILCS 5/16-120) Sec. 16-120. Development of competitive market; Commission study and reports; investigation. (a) On or before December 31, 1999 and once every 3 years thereafter, the Commission shall monitor and analyze patterns of entry and exit, applications for entry and e…

(220 ILCS 5/16-121) Sec. 16-121. Non-discrimination; adoption of rules and regulations. The Commission shall adopt rules and regulations no later than 180 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997 governing the relationship between the electric utility and its …

(220 ILCS 5/16-122) Sec. 16-122. Customer information. (a) Upon the request of a retail customer, or a person who presents verifiable authorization and is acting as the customer's agent, and payment of a reasonable fee, electric utilities shall provide to the customer or its auth…

(220 ILCS 5/16-123) Sec. 16-123. Establishment of customer information centers for electric utilities and alternative retail electric suppliers. (a) All electric utilities and alternative retail electric suppliers shall be required to maintain a customer call center where custome…

(220 ILCS 5/16-124) Sec. 16-124. Metering for residential and small commercial retail customers. An electric utility shall not require a residential or small commercial retail customer to take additional metering or metering capability as a condition of taking delivery services u…

(220 ILCS 5/16-125) Sec. 16-125. Transmission and distribution reliability requirements. (a) To assure the reliable delivery of electricity to all customers in this State and the effective implementation of the provisions of this Article, the Commission shall, within 180 days of …

(220 ILCS 5/16-125A) Sec. 16-125A. Consolidated billing provision for established intergovernmental agreement participants. (a) The tariffs of each electric utility serving at least 1,000,000 customers shall permit governmental customers acting through an intergovernmental agreem…

(220 ILCS 5/16-126) Sec. 16-126. Membership in an independent system operator. (a) The General Assembly finds that the establishment of one or more independent system operators or their functional equivalents is required to facilitate the development of an open and efficient mark…

(220 ILCS 5/16-126.1) Sec. 16-126.1. Regional transmission organization memberships. The State shall not directly or indirectly prohibit an electric utility that on December 31, 2005 provided electric service to at least 100,000 customers in Illinois from membership in a Federal …