UTILITIES-ACES ACT Senate SponsorsSen. Don Harmon-Dan Cronin-Iris Y. Martinez, Rickey R. Hendon, Jacqueline Y. Collins-Mattie Hunter-Susan Garrett, John J. Cullerton, Ira I. Silverstein, David Koehler, Pamela J. Althoff, Martin A. Sandoval, Jeffrey M. Schoenberg, Kirk W. Dillard, Carol Ronen, Michael Noland, Randall M. Hultgren, Donne E. Trotter, Terry Link, William E. Peterson, Christine Radogno, Debbie DeFrancesco Halvorson, Michael W. Frerichs, Dan Kotowski, Todd Sieben and Kwame Raoul House Sponsors(Rep. Deborah L. Graham-Elaine Nekritz-Dave Winters-Mike Fortner-Karen A. Yarbrough, Kathleen A. Ryg, Naomi D. Jakobsson, Karen May, William Davis, Bob Biggins, LaShawn K. Ford, Sara Feigenholtz, Mike Boland, Elizabeth Coulson, Al Riley, Constance A. Howard, Harry Osterman, Greg Harris and Barbara Flynn Currie) 1/13/2009SenateSession Sine Die New Act Creates the Affordable and Clean Energy Standards (ACES) Act. Provides the findings of the General Assembly. Provides that electric utilities shall utilize cost-effective energy efficiency and load management investment in their energy resource portfolios according to specified guidelines. Provides that the Capital Development Board shall adopt the 2006 International Energy Conservation Code, without amendment, as the statewide residential building code for new home construction and significant additions or remodels of existing homes. Includes a severability clause. Preempts home rule. Effective immediately.Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Adds reference to:305 ILCS 20/13Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the introduced bill with the following changes. Adds findings of the General Assembly. Changes the provisions concerning utility energy efficiency programs. Removes provisions concerning the adoption of a residential building energy code, rules for enforcement of the Act, and home rule preemption. Amends the Energy Assistance Act to change the repeal date of a provision concerning the Supplemental Low-Income Energy Assistance Fund to December 31, 2015. Effective immediately.Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Adds reference to:20 ILCS 687/6-5Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Creates the Affordable and Clean Energy Standards (ACES) Law. Requires electric utilities and gas utilities to use cost-effective energy efficiency resources to meet specified incremental annual program energy savings goals. Provides that electric and natural gas utilities shall be responsible for overseeing the design, development, and filing of their efficiency plans with the Illinois Commerce Commission and provides that 25% of the approved programs shall be administered by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Requires that an electric utility shall procure or obtain cost-effective renewable energy resources in amounts that equal or exceed specified percentages of the total electricity that the electric utility supplies to its Illinois customers. Amends the Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, and Coal Resources Development Law of 1997. Provides that 50% of moneys collected for the assistance charge shall be deposited in the Coal Technology Development Assistance Fund by the Department of Revenue for the exclusive purposes of (1) capturing or sequestering carbon emissions produced by coal combustion; (2) supporting research on the capture and sequestration of carbon emissions produced by coal combustion; and (3) improving coal miner safety. Creates the Wind Energy Indemnity Fund Law. Provides that the Director of the Department of Agriculture shall have all powers necessary to execute the provisions of the Law. Provides that the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act shall apply to the Law. Provides that final administrative decisions of the Department of Agriculture are subject to judicial review under the Code of Civil Procedure and provides that the Department may adopt rules that are necessary for the implementation and administration of the Law. Provides for assessments for the Wind Energy Indemnity Fund and provides for the installation and payment criteria. Provides for an abandonment provision concerning deconstruction procedures. Provides that the Department shall have a lien prior and paramount to all other liens of any other sort on the assets of the wind energy system. Provides the procedure by which a claimant may file a complaint concerning the Law. Creates the Illinois Wind Energy Fund Corporation and specifies its powers. Provides that neither the board of the Illinois Wind Energy Fund Corporation nor the Director has to the authority to alter, vary, or revise the provisions of the Law by agreement with any claimant or other entity. Effective immediately.Senate Floor Amendment No. 4 Adds reference to:20 ILCS 687/6-7Changes the definition of "energy conservation" to include increased customer knowledge concerning the societal impacts of energy consumption (rather than impacts of consumption). Adds biodiesel as a renewable energy resource. Provides that a minimum of 10% of the entire (instead of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity's) portfolio of cost-effective energy efficiency resources shall be procured from specified sources. Provides that notwithstanding certain requirements, an electric utility may reduce the amount of renewable energy resources procured under new contracts in any single by an amount necessary to limit the estimated average net increase due to the costs of these resources included in the amounts paid by retail customers in connection with electric service to no more than 0.5% of the amount paid by such customers during the preceding calendar year, with the limit increasing by 0.5% in each of the 3 years 2009 through 2011 (instead of including a provision for a maximum cap on the allowed estimated average increase due to the cost of the resources of 2.5%). Provides that an electric utility with fewer than 90,000 but more than 50,000 electric customers (instead of 50,000 customers) in Illinois as of January 1, 2007 shall be allowed to count renewable energy resources generated in a state adjoining Illinois for the purpose of meeting the renewable energy standard that is specified in certain provisions. Provides that nothing shall prohibit an electric utility from issuing a competitive solicitation for renewable energy resources in order to meet certain standards or (instead of "and") from beginning to recover the associated costs in advance of the conclusion of the specified rulemaking, provided that such electric utility shall have first requested and received Commission approval for the design and conduct of such solicitation and the associated cost recovery methodology and tariff. Changes the repeal date of the Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, and Coal Resources Development Law of 1997 from December 16, 2007 to December 12, 2015. Makes technical changes. 2/8/2007SenateFiled with Secretary by Sen. Don Harmon 2/8/2007SenateFirst Reading 2/8/2007SenateReferred to Rules 2/21/2007SenateAssigned to Environment and Energy 2/23/2007SenateAdded as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Iris Y. Martinez 2/23/2007SenateChief Co-Sponsor Changed to Sen. Iris Y. Martinez 3/1/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Rickey R. Hendon 3/1/2007SenateHeld in Environment and Energy 3/1/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins 3/1/2007SenateAdded as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Mattie Hunter 3/1/2007SenateAdded as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Susan Garrett 3/1/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. John J. Cullerton 3/1/2007SenateSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Don Harmon 3/1/2007SenateSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules 3/1/2007SenateChief Co-Sponsor Changed to Sen. Mattie Hunter 3/1/2007SenateChief Co-Sponsor Changed to Sen. Susan Garrett 3/2/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Ira I. Silverstein 3/6/2007SenateSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Environment and Energy 3/7/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. David Koehler 3/8/2007SenateSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Postponed - Environment and Energy 3/8/2007SenatePostponed - Environment and Energy 3/8/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Pamela J. Althoff 3/8/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Martin A. Sandoval 3/14/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Dan Cronin 3/15/2007SenateSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Held in Environment and Energy 3/15/2007SenateDo Pass Environment and Energy; 011-000-000 3/15/2007SenatePlaced on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 20, 2007 3/15/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Jeffrey M. Schoenberg 3/15/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Kirk W. Dillard 3/16/2007SenateSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Rules 3/20/2007SenateSecond Reading 3/20/2007SenatePlaced on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 21, 2007 3/23/2007SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Don Harmon 3/23/2007SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules 3/27/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Carol Ronen 3/27/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Michael Noland 3/27/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Randall M. Hultgren 3/27/2007SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 2 Rules Refers to Environment and Energy 3/28/2007SenateAdded as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Dan Cronin 3/28/2007SenateChief Co-Sponsor Changed to Sen. Dan Cronin 3/28/2007SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommend Do Adopt Environment and Energy; 012-000-000 3/29/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Donne E. Trotter 3/29/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Terry Link 3/30/2007SenateRule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 31, 2007 4/2/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. William E. Peterson 4/19/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Christine Radogno 4/23/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Debbie DeFrancesco Halvorson 4/25/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Michael W. Frerichs 5/1/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Dan Kotowski 5/1/2007SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 3 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Don Harmon 5/1/2007SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 3 Referred to Rules 5/2/2007SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 4 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Don Harmon 5/2/2007SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 4 Referred to Rules 5/2/2007SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 3 Rules Refers to Environment and Energy 5/2/2007SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 4 Rules Refers to Environment and Energy 5/3/2007SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 3 Recommend Do Adopt Environment and Energy; 008-000-001 5/3/2007SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 4 Recommend Do Adopt Environment and Energy; 008-000-001 5/9/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Todd Sieben 5/9/2007SenateRecalled to Second Reading 5/9/2007SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted; Harmon 5/9/2007SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 3 Adopted; Harmon 5/9/2007SenateSenate Floor Amendment No. 4 Adopted; Harmon 5/9/2007SenatePlaced on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading 5/9/2007SenateThird Reading - Passed; 056-000-000 5/9/2007SenateSenate Committee Amendment No. 1 Tabled Pursuant to Rule 5-4(a) 5/9/2007HouseArrived in House 5/9/2007HousePlaced on Calendar Order of First Reading 5/9/2007HouseChief House Sponsor Rep. Deborah L. Graham 5/9/2007HouseAdded Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Elaine Nekritz 5/9/2007HouseAdded Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Dave Winters 5/9/2007HouseFirst Reading 5/9/2007HouseReferred to Rules Committee 5/10/2007HouseAdded Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Mike Fortner 5/10/2007HouseAdded Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Karen A. Yarbrough 5/10/2007HouseAdded Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Kathleen A. Ryg 5/10/2007HouseAdded Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Naomi D. Jakobsson 5/10/2007HouseAdded Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Karen May 5/10/2007HouseAdded Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. William Davis 5/14/2007HouseAssigned to Executive Committee 5/15/2007HouseAdded Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Bob Biggins 5/16/2007HouseAdded Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. LaShawn K. Ford 5/18/2007SenateAdded as Co-Sponsor Sen. Kwame Raoul 5/18/2007HouseCommittee Deadline Extended-Rule 9(b) May 25, 2007 5/22/2007HouseAdded Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Sara Feigenholtz 5/22/2007HouseAdded Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Mike Boland 5/22/2007HouseAdded Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Elizabeth Coulson 5/22/2007HouseAdded Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Al Riley 5/22/2007HouseAdded Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Constance A. Howard 5/22/2007HouseAdded Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Harry Osterman 5/22/2007HouseAdded Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Greg Harris 5/25/2007HouseFinal Action Deadline Extended-9(b) May 31, 2007 5/31/2007HouseRule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee 7/10/2007HouseAdded Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie 1/13/2009SenateSession Sine Die