Chapter 220, UTILITIES

(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carrier by pipeline, tariffs and schedules, and findings, orders, decisions, rules, and regulations, issued under the repealed provisions of the Illinois Commer…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 10/16) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 916) Sec. 16. Corporation to be nonpartisan. The corporation may not sponsor, endorse or otherwise support, nor may it oppose any political party or the candidacy of any person for public office. The corporation and its directors and emplo…

(220 ILCS 30/16) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 416) Sec. 16. Any electric supplier which violates any provision of this Act shall be guilty of a business offense and shall upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $2,000. (Source: P.A. 77-2196.)…

(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) 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 safety, reliability, resiliency, affordability, equit…

(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 from P.A. 104-477) 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 private investment i…

(220 ILCS 5/16-107.6) Sec. 16-107.6. Distributed generation and storage rebate. (a) In this Section: "Additive services" means the services that distributed energy resources provide to the energy system and society that are described in Section 16-107.9. "Distributed energy resou…

(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) 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 policy goals by improving load shape, encouraging energy conservation, and shiftin…

(220 ILCS 5/16-107.9) 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 or its affiliate, that (i) represents and aggregates the load of participating …

(220 ILCS 5/16-108) 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 date that it is required to begin offering such servic…

(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…

(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) Sec. 16-108.19. Integrated Distribution Planning. (a) The Commission shall employ professionals, including engineers, rate analysts, accountants, policy analysts, utility research and analysis analysts, cybersecurity analysts, informational technology speci…

(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) 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 receive moneys collected pursuant to this Section.…

(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…