Public Act 097-0491
 
HB1458 EnrolledLRB097 05385 PJG 45442 b

    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Power Agency Act is amended by
changing Section 1-10 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 3855/1-10)
    Sec. 1-10. Definitions.
    "Agency" means the Illinois Power Agency.
    "Agency loan agreement" means any agreement pursuant to
which the Illinois Finance Authority agrees to loan the
proceeds of revenue bonds issued with respect to a project to
the Agency upon terms providing for loan repayment installments
at least sufficient to pay when due all principal of, interest
and premium, if any, on those revenue bonds, and providing for
maintenance, insurance, and other matters in respect of the
project.
    "Authority" means the Illinois Finance Authority.
    "Clean coal facility" means an electric generating
facility that uses primarily coal as a feedstock and that
captures and sequesters carbon emissions at the following
levels: at least 50% of the total carbon emissions that the
facility would otherwise emit if, at the time construction
commences, the facility is scheduled to commence operation
before 2016, at least 70% of the total carbon emissions that
the facility would otherwise emit if, at the time construction
commences, the facility is scheduled to commence operation
during 2016 or 2017, and at least 90% of the total carbon
emissions that the facility would otherwise emit if, at the
time construction commences, the facility is scheduled to
commence operation after 2017. The power block of the clean
coal facility shall not exceed allowable emission rates for
sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, particulates
and mercury for a natural gas-fired combined-cycle facility the
same size as and in the same location as the clean coal
facility at the time the clean coal facility obtains an
approved air permit. All coal used by a clean coal facility
shall have high volatile bituminous rank and greater than 1.7
pounds of sulfur per million btu content, unless the clean coal
facility does not use gasification technology and was operating
as a conventional coal-fired electric generating facility on
June 1, 2009 (the effective date of Public Act 95-1027).
    "Clean coal SNG facility" means a facility that uses a
gasification process to produce substitute natural gas, that
sequesters at least 90% of the total carbon emissions that the
facility would otherwise emit and that uses petroleum coke or
coal as a feedstock, with all such coal having a high
bituminous rank and greater than 1.7 pounds of sulfur per
million btu content.
    "Commission" means the Illinois Commerce Commission.
    "Costs incurred in connection with the development and
construction of a facility" means:
        (1) the cost of acquisition of all real property and
    improvements in connection therewith and equipment and
    other property, rights, and easements acquired that are
    deemed necessary for the operation and maintenance of the
    facility;
        (2) financing costs with respect to bonds, notes, and
    other evidences of indebtedness of the Agency;
        (3) all origination, commitment, utilization,
    facility, placement, underwriting, syndication, credit
    enhancement, and rating agency fees;
        (4) engineering, design, procurement, consulting,
    legal, accounting, title insurance, survey, appraisal,
    escrow, trustee, collateral agency, interest rate hedging,
    interest rate swap, capitalized interest and other
    financing costs, and other expenses for professional
    services; and
        (5) the costs of plans, specifications, site study and
    investigation, installation, surveys, other Agency costs
    and estimates of costs, and other expenses necessary or
    incidental to determining the feasibility of any project,
    together with such other expenses as may be necessary or
    incidental to the financing, insuring, acquisition, and
    construction of a specific project and placing that project
    in operation.
    "Department" means the Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity.
    "Director" means the Director of the Illinois Power Agency.
    "Demand-response" means measures that decrease peak
electricity demand or shift demand from peak to off-peak
periods.
    "Energy efficiency" means measures that reduce the amount
of electricity or natural gas required to achieve a given end
use.
    "Electric utility" has the same definition as found in
Section 16-102 of the Public Utilities Act.
    "Facility" means an electric generating unit or a
co-generating unit that produces electricity along with
related equipment necessary to connect the facility to an
electric transmission or distribution system.
    "Governmental aggregator" means one or more units of local
government that individually or collectively procure
electricity to serve residential retail electrical loads
located within its or their jurisdiction.
    "Local government" means a unit of local government as
defined in Article VII of Section 1 of the Illinois
Constitution.
    "Municipality" means a city, village, or incorporated
town.
    "Person" means any natural person, firm, partnership,
corporation, either domestic or foreign, company, association,
limited liability company, joint stock company, or association
and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal
representative thereof.
    "Project" means the planning, bidding, and construction of
a facility.
    "Public utility" has the same definition as found in
Section 3-105 of the Public Utilities Act.
    "Real property" means any interest in land together with
all structures, fixtures, and improvements thereon, including
lands under water and riparian rights, any easements,
covenants, licenses, leases, rights-of-way, uses, and other
interests, together with any liens, judgments, mortgages, or
other claims or security interests related to real property.
    "Renewable energy credit" means a tradable credit that
represents the environmental attributes of a certain amount of
energy produced from a renewable energy resource.
    "Renewable energy resources" includes energy and its
associated renewable energy credit or renewable energy credits
from wind, solar thermal energy, photovoltaic cells and panels,
biodiesel, anaerobic digestion, crops and untreated and
unadulterated organic waste biomass, tree waste, hydropower
that does not involve new construction or significant expansion
of hydropower dams, and other alternative sources of
environmentally preferable energy. For purposes of this Act,
landfill gas produced in the State is considered a renewable
energy resource. "Renewable energy resources" does not include
the incineration or burning of tires, garbage, general
household, institutional, and commercial waste, industrial
lunchroom or office waste, landscape waste other than tree
waste, railroad crossties, utility poles, or construction or
demolition debris, other than untreated and unadulterated
waste wood.
    "Revenue bond" means any bond, note, or other evidence of
indebtedness issued by the Authority, the principal and
interest of which is payable solely from revenues or income
derived from any project or activity of the Agency.
    "Sequester" means permanent storage of carbon dioxide by
injecting it into a saline aquifer, a depleted gas reservoir,
or an oil reservoir, directly or through an enhanced oil
recovery process that may involve intermediate storage in a
salt dome.
    "Servicing agreement" means (i) in the case of an electric
utility, an agreement between the owner of a clean coal
facility and such electric utility, which agreement shall have
terms and conditions meeting the requirements of paragraph (3)
of subsection (d) of Section 1-75, and (ii) in the case of an
alternative retail electric supplier, an agreement between the
owner of a clean coal facility and such alternative retail
electric supplier, which agreement shall have terms and
conditions meeting the requirements of Section 16-115(d)(5) of
the Public Utilities Act.
    "Substitute natural gas" or "SNG" means a gas manufactured
by gasification of hydrocarbon feedstock, which is
substantially interchangeable in use and distribution with
conventional natural gas.
    "Total resource cost test" or "TRC test" means a standard
that is met if, for an investment in energy efficiency or
demand-response measures, the benefit-cost ratio is greater
than one. The benefit-cost ratio is the ratio of the net
present value of the total benefits of the program to the net
present value of the total costs as calculated over the
lifetime of the measures. A total resource cost test compares
the sum of avoided electric utility costs, representing the
benefits that accrue to the system and the participant in the
delivery of those efficiency measures, as well as other
quantifiable societal benefits, including avoided natural gas
utility costs, to the sum of all incremental costs of end-use
measures that are implemented due to the program (including
both utility and participant contributions), plus costs to
administer, deliver, and evaluate each demand-side program, to
quantify the net savings obtained by substituting the
demand-side program for supply resources. In calculating
avoided costs of power and energy that an electric utility
would otherwise have had to acquire, reasonable estimates shall
be included of financial costs likely to be imposed by future
regulations and legislation on emissions of greenhouse gases.
(Source: P.A. 95-481, eff. 8-28-07; 95-913, eff. 1-1-09;
95-1027, eff. 6-1-09; 96-33, eff. 7-10-09; 96-159, eff.
8-10-09; 96-784, eff. 8-28-09; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

Effective Date: 8/22/2011