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Public Act 92-0585
SB1569 Enrolled LRB9212289JSmb
AN ACT concerning public utilities.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by
changing Sections 16-120 and 16-122 as follows:
(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 exit,
and any barriers to entry or participation that may exist,
for services provided under this Article; shall analyze any
impediments to the establishment of a fully competitive
energy and power market in Illinois; and shall include its
findings together with appropriate recommendations for
legislative action in a report to the General Assembly.
(b) Beginning in 2001, and ending in 2006, the
Commission shall prepare an annual report regarding the
development of electricity markets in Illinois which shall be
filed by April 1 of each year with the Joint Committee on
Legislative Support Services of the General Assembly and the
Governor and which shall be publicly available. Such report
shall include, at a minimum, the following information:
(1) the aggregate annual peak demand of retail
customers in the State of Illinois in the preceding
calendar year;
(2) the total annual kilowatt-hours delivered and
sold to retail customers in the State of Illinois by each
electric utility within its own service territory, each
electric utility outside its service territory, and
alternative retail electric suppliers in the preceding
calendar year;
(3) the percentage of the total kilowatt-hours
delivered and sold to retail customers in the State of
Illinois in the preceding calendar year by each electric
utility within its service territory, each electric
utility outside its service territory, and each
alternative retail electric supplier; and
(4) any other information the Commission considers
significant in assessing the development of Illinois
electricity markets, which may include, to the extent
available, information similar to that described in items
1, 2 and 3 with respect to cogeneration, self-generation
and other sources of electric power and energy provided
to customers that do not take delivery services or
bundled electric utility services.
The Commission may also include such other information as
it deems to be necessary or beneficial in describing or
explaining the results of its Report. The Report required by
this Section shall be adopted by a vote of the full
Commission prior to filing. Proprietary or confidential
information shall not be disclosed publicly. Nothing
contained in this Section shall prohibit the Commission from
taking actions that would otherwise be allowed under this
Act.
(c) The Commission shall prepare a report on the value
of municipal aggregation of electricity customers. The
report shall be filed with the General Assembly and the
Governor no later than January 15, 2003 and shall be publicly
available. The report shall, at a minimum, include:
(1) a description and analysis of actual and
potential forms of aggregation of electricity customers
in Illinois and in the other states, including
aggregation through municipal, affinity, and other
organizations and through aggregation of consumer
purchases of electricity from renewable energy sources;
(2) estimates of the potential benefits of
municipal aggregation to Illinois electricity customers
in at least 5 specific municipal examples comparing their
costs under bundled rates and unbundled rates, including
real-time prices;
(3) a description of the barriers to municipal and
other forms of aggregation in Illinois, including legal,
economic, informational, and other barriers; and
(4) options for legislative action to foster
municipal and other forms of aggregation of electricity
customers.
In preparing the report, the Commission shall consult
with persons involved in aggregation or the study of
aggregation of electricity customers in Illinois, including
municipalities, utilities, aggregators, and non-profit
organizations. The provisions of Section 16-122
notwithstanding, the Commission may request and utilities
shall provide such aggregated load data as may be necessary
to perform the analyses required by this subsection;
provided, however, proprietary or confidential information
shall not be disclosed publicly.
(Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)
(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 authorized
agent the customer's billing and usage data.
(b) Upon request from any alternative retail electric
supplier and payment of a reasonable fee, an electric utility
serving retail customers in its service area shall make
available generic information concerning the usage, load
shape curve or other general characteristics of customers by
rate classification. Provided however, no customer specific
billing, usage or load shape data shall be provided under
this subsection unless authorization to provide such
information is provided by the customer pursuant to
subsection (a) of this Section.
(c) Upon request from a unit of local government and
payment of a reasonable fee, an electric utility shall make
available information concerning the usage, load shape
curves, and other characteristics of customers by customer
classification and location within the boundaries of the unit
of local government, however, no customer specific billing,
usage, or load shape data shall be provided under this
subsection unless authorization to provide that information
is provided by the customer.
(d) (c) All such customer information shall be made
available in a timely fashion in an electronic format, if
available.
(Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.
Passed in the General Assembly April 30, 2002.
Approved June 26, 2002.
Effective June 26, 2002.
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