(220 ILCS 5/9-242) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 9-242)
Sec. 9-242.
The Commission shall study the costs and benefits of
implementing promotional rates for a public utility's
industrial and commercial customers when such rates are intended to
encourage increased consumption of gas or
electric service by such customers, to increase employment or
production by such customers, or to improve the likelihood that existing
customers will remain, or additional industrial or commercial customers
will locate, in Illinois. The Commission shall include in its study, in
particular, an analysis of (1) the extent to which existing industrial and
commercial customers change short-term production or employment
levels in response to any change in prices for gas or electric service;
(2) the extent to which industrial and commercial customers base long-term
location, production and employment decisions on the short-term and
long-term prices of gas or electric service; and (3) the extent to
which rates or charges paid by utility customers other than those directly
benefitting from promotional rates are affected by the utilization of such
rates by industrial and commercial customers. The Commission's study
shall be subject to hearing and comment, and the findings shall be reported to
the General Assembly together with any recommendations for legislative action.
(Source: P.A. 84-617.)
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