(20 ILCS 735/10-10) (Section scheduled to be repealed on September 15, 2045)
Sec. 10-10. Definitions.
As used in this Act, unless the
context otherwise requires:
"Agencies" or "State agencies" has the same meaning as
"State agencies" under Section 1-7 of the Illinois State
Auditing Act.
"Commission" means the Energy Transition Workforce
Commission created in Section 10-15.
"Department" means the Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity.
"Displaced energy worker" means an energy worker who has
lost employment, or is anticipated by the Department to lose
employment within the next 5 years, due to the reduced
operation or closure of a fossil fuel power plant, nuclear
power plant, or coal mine.
"Energy worker" means a person who has been employed
full-time for a period of one year or longer, and within the
previous 5 years, at a fossil fuel power plant, a nuclear power
plant, or a coal mine located within the State of Illinois,
whether or not they are employed by the owner of the power
plant or mine. Energy workers are considered to be full-time
if they work at least 35 hours per week for 45 weeks a year or
the 1,820 work-hour equivalent with vacations, paid holidays,
and sick time, but not overtime, included in this computation.
Classification of an individual as an energy worker continues
for 5 years from the latest date of employment or the effective
date of this Act, whichever is later.
"Environmental justice communities" shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 1-56 of the Illinois Power Agency Act and
the most recent Commission-approved long-term renewable
resources procurement plan of the Illinois Power Agency.
"Investor-owned electric generating plant" means an electric generating unit or fossil fuel-fired unit that has a nameplate capacity or serves a generator that has a nameplate capacity greater than 25Mwe and that produces electricity, including, but not limited to, coal-fired, coal-derived, oil-fired, natural gas-fired, and cogeneration units.
"Local labor market area" means an economically integrated
area within which individuals reside and find employment
within a reasonable distance of their places of residence or
can readily change jobs without changing their places of
residence.
"Low-income" means persons and families whose income does
not exceed 80% of area median income, adjusted for family size
and revised every 2 years.
"Renewable energy enterprise" means a company that is
engaged in the production, manufacturing, distribution, or
development of renewable energy resources and associated
technologies.
"Renewable energy project" means a project conducted by a
renewable energy enterprise for the purpose of generating
renewable energy resources or energy storage.
"Renewable energy resources" has the meaning set forth in
Section 1-10 of the Illinois Power Agency Act.
"Rule" has the meaning set forth in Section 1-70 of the
Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.
(Source: P.A. 102-662, eff. 9-15-21.) |