Full Text of HR0651 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, A secure, reliable, and resilient power grid | 3 | | integrating generation resources serves as a
foundation of a | 4 | | growing economy and is critical to national security; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Regulators, policymakers, and consumers expect | 6 | | generating resources and the grid to
perform extremely | 7 | | reliably; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, A significant portion of the nation's | 9 | | transmission facilities is aged and urgently requires
| 10 | | replacement and substantial upgrading; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, Environmental regulations, state renewable and | 12 | | clean energy portfolio standards with
mandated deadlines, | 13 | | state and federal tax policies, other economic factors, and | 14 | | technology developments are
causing some electric generation | 15 | | resources to retire, while substantial replacement generation, | 16 | | some of it fueled
by intermittent resources, is being or is | 17 | | planned to be sited at other locations on the electric grid; | 18 | | and | 19 | | WHEREAS, The risk of natural disasters threatens the | 20 | | network of
power transmission and distribution lines, and | 21 | | strengthening the nation's grid with advanced technology can
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| 1 | | increase the grid's resiliency and reliability; and | 2 | | WHEREAS, New innovative, cost-effective transmission | 3 | | technologies, including, but not limited to,
high-capacity and | 4 | | high-efficiency conductors and compact transmission towers, | 5 | | are commercially available with
revolutionary, extraordinarily | 6 | | high-performance levels compared to other technologies to | 7 | | address aged circuit and
new generation issues, including much | 8 | | greater increases in grid capacity, much greater improvements | 9 | | in energy transfers,
significantly greater stability and | 10 | | resiliency, much greater efficient use of existing and new | 11 | | rights-of-way, substantial
reduction in transmission line | 12 | | losses, streamlining siting and construction activities, and | 13 | | more rapidly bringing new
and replacement circuits into | 14 | | service; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, New and advanced replacement transmission | 16 | | facilities can be designed and deployed to
enable a wide | 17 | | variety of new generating resources and can address technical, | 18 | | environmental, and aesthetic
issues that could impede or limit | 19 | | the development and operation of resources so states can | 20 | | achieve public policy goals on set schedules; and | 21 | | WHEREAS, Crowded utility corridors often allow little room | 22 | | for expansion; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Some states have established minimal requirements | 2 | | for approving transmission projects that
use existing | 3 | | corridors with de minimis impacts; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, At least one state has established a policy that | 5 | | encourages regulators and grid operators
to support and | 6 | | encourage consideration of advanced transmission line | 7 | | technologies to cost-effectively deliver
benefits; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Substantial benefits will flow from advanced | 9 | | technologies on a cost-per-energy-unit-delivered or
other | 10 | | basis, so state legislators, electric utilities, grid | 11 | | operators, and state public service commissions are
encouraged | 12 | | to optimize investment decisions around the cost-effective use | 13 | | of technologies to yield extraordinarily
high performance from | 14 | | them; therefore, be it
| 15 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 16 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 17 | | encourage the State of Illinois to support the following: | 18 | | (1) the investigation and consideration of new | 19 | | advanced transmission technologies that offer
| 20 | | revolutionary performance benefits when replacing aged | 21 | | transmission infrastructure; | 22 | | (2) the evaluation of new advanced transmission | 23 | | technologies to determine whether they are best able
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| 1 | | cost-effectively ensure the continued reliable delivery of | 2 | | electricity while providing revolutionary greater
capacity | 3 | | and revolutionary enhanced efficiency on schedules | 4 | | required to meet the state's public policy objectives; | 5 | | (3) the consideration of the ability of these | 6 | | technologies to greatly reduce environmental and visual
| 7 | | impacts to communities; and | 8 | | (4) the consideration of the ability of these and other | 9 | | technologies to greatly reduce the overall cost of
energy | 10 | | delivery; and be it further | 11 | | RESOLVED, That we encourage efforts to work with regional | 12 | | transmission organizations, independent system operators, and | 13 | | other planning authorities to compare the
cost-effective, | 14 | | revolutionary performance of advanced electric transmission | 15 | | infrastructure options to the
performance of other | 16 | | technologies for increasing grid capacity, reducing | 17 | | transmission line losses, improving
energy transfers, making | 18 | | more efficient use of rights-of-way, improving energy | 19 | | efficiency, and encouraging the
shortest timeframes be put in | 20 | | service by streamlining siting and construction activities in | 21 | | their planning,
evaluation, and oversight of transmission grid | 22 | | development, especially by utilizing existing transmission | 23 | | corridors; and be it further | 24 | | RESOLVED, That we encourage the inclusion of supplemental |
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| 1 | | or new
policies of transmission facilities that promote | 2 | | revolutionary, rather than incremental, performance and the
| 3 | | benefits of the appropriate use of cost-effective advanced | 4 | | electric transmission technologies in support of their
| 5 | | interest in the continued, timely provision of affordable, | 6 | | reliable electricity to consumers; and be it further
| 7 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 8 | | delivered to Governor Rauner, all members of the Illinois | 9 | | Commerce Commission, all members of the Illinois Congressional | 10 | | Delegation,
Exelon,
Dynegy,
ComEd,
Ameren,
Mid-American | 11 | | Energy,
Illinois Electrical Cooperatives,
the Electric Power | 12 | | Research Institute,
National Labs (Department of Energy), and | 13 | | the
IEE.
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