Section 1200.110  Definitions

The following terms are defined for this Part:

"Act" shall mean the Illinois Power Agency Act [20 ILCS 3855].

"Agency" shall mean the Illinois Power Agency.

"ARES" shall mean an Alternative Retail Electric Supplier, as defined in Section 16-102 of the Public Utilities Act.

"Bidder" shall mean any person or entity that bids to provide electric supply or related energy products (e.g., renewable energy credits, energy efficiency credits, or demand response) or feedstock for any facility using clean coal technology in any amount in any procurement.

"Commission" shall mean the Illinois Commerce Commission.

"Mediation" shall have the meaning provided in the specific Section of the Act or the Public Utilities Act authorizing or requiring the Agency to offer mediation in a particular instance. (See 220 ILCS 5/9-220(h))

"Overhead" shall mean an amount determined on an annual basis by taking the Agency's appropriated operations budget, and reducing that amount by budgeted amounts for procurements conducted under Subparts B, C, or D, program administration, procurement administrators, as defined in Section 16-111.5(c) of the Public Utilities Act, any expert or expert consulting firm as defined in Sections 1-75(a)(1) and 1-77(a)(1) of the Act or any other individual or firm the Agency is required to retain pursuant to the Act or the Public Utilities Act.

"Participating Utility" shall mean any utility for which the Agency conducts energy or capacity procurement planning, a regular procurement, or a special procurement; or any utility which enters into contractual obligations through a program or procurement administered by the Agency.

"Procurement" shall mean any competitive bidding process overseen by the Agency or its agents, representatives, or consultants.  Procurement events are limited to bidding for electric supply or related energy products (such as renewable energy credits, energy efficiency credits, or demand response) and feedstock for any facility using clean coal technology.

"Procurement Administrator" shall have the meaning provided in Section 1-75 of the Act.

"Procurement Event" shall mean the actual procurement of a product or products for one or more participating utilities and, as applicable, an ARES, or a State fund, regardless of whether the event results in any product being procured.

"Procurement Plan" shall have the meaning provided in Section 1-75(a) of the Act.  This includes the annual electricity procurement plan, the biannual long-term renewable resources procurement plan, the zero emissions standard procurement plan, the carbon mitigation credit procurement plan, and any other plan authorized by the General Assembly.

"Product" shall mean:

energy, capacity, ancillary services, other measures of electricity supplied, energy efficiency, demand response, or reductions in demand for electricity (through commercially verifiable methods such as verified voluntary load reduction) that can be measured in a single unit specified by the Agency in the procurement document, renewable energy credits, zero emission credits, carbon mitigation credits, and other products specified in procurement plans authorized by the General Assembly.

"Program" shall mean any program administered by the Agency under the provisions of the Act, including, but not limited to, the Illinois Solar for All Program established in Section 1-56(b)(2) of the Act and the Adjustable Block Program established in Section 1-75(c)(1)(K) of the Act.

"Program Administration" shall mean the activities of consultants retained by the Agency to administer any aspect of a program authorized under Sections 1-56 or 1-75 of the Act, including program administrators, the procurement administrator, the procurement planning consultant, the Illinois Solar for All evaluator, and other consultants authorized by the General Assembly.

"Public Utilities Act" shall mean 220 ILCS 5.

"Regular Procurement" shall mean any procurement authorized by a procurement plan duly approved by the Commission.

"Sourcing Agreement" shall mean a contract between a clean coal SNG facility, a clean coal SNG brownfield facility, an initial clean coal facility, a clean coal facility, or any other similar bilateral contract between a facility and a public utility or ARES described in the Public Utilities Act or the Act.

"Special Procurement" shall mean any procurement that is not a regular procurement contained in a procurement plan approved by the Commission.

"Supplier" shall mean any bidder who successfully secures the right to provide one or more units of one or more products in a procurement event.

(Source:  Amended at 50 Ill. Reg. 2515, effective February 4, 2026)