Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 Utilities: Article XVI - Electric Service Customer Choice And Rate Relief Law Of 1997

• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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,...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 16-107.5
  Net electricity metering. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that a program to provide net electricity metering, as defined in this Section, for eligible customers...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 16-108
  Recovery of costs associated with the provision of delivery services. (a) An electric utility shall file a delivery services tariff with the Commission at...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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,...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 16-111.5B
  Provisions relating to energy efficiency procurement. (a) Beginning in 2012, procurement plans prepared pursuant to Section 16-111.5 of this Act shall be subject to the...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 16-111.7
  On-bill financing program; electric utilities. (a) The Illinois General Assembly finds that Illinois homes and businesses have the potential to save energy through conservation and...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 16-115A
  Obligations of alternative retail electric suppliers. (a) An alternative retail electric supplier shall: (i) comply with the requirements imposed on public utilities by Sections...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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,...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 16-123
  Establishment of customer information centers for electric utilities and alternative retail electric suppliers. All electric utilities and alternative retail electric suppliers shall be required...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 16-127
  Environmental disclosure. (a) Effective January 1, 2013, every electric utility and alternative retail electric supplier shall provide the following information, to the maximum extent practicable,...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 16-128
  Provisions related to utility employees. (a) The General Assembly finds: (1) The reliability and safety of the electric system has depended and depends on a...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 16-128A
  Certification of installers, maintainers, or repairers. (a) Within 18 months of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, the Commission...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 16-129
  Existing contracts not affected. Nothing in this Article XVI shall affect the right of an electric utility to continue to provide, or the right...
• Illinois Public Utilities Act. - 220 ILCS 5, Section 16-130
  Annual Reports. The General Assembly finds that it is necessary to have reliable and accurate information regarding the transition to a competitive electric industry....

Last modified: February 18, 2015