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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended  by adding 
5Section 16-107.7 as follows:
 
6    (220 ILCS 5/16-107.7 new)
7    Sec. 16-107.7. Cost-benefit analysis of energy storage 
8systems. 
9    (a) Within 90 days after the effective date of this 
10amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, the Illinois 
11Commerce Commission must contract with an independent 
12consultant selected  through a request for proposal process to 
13produce a report analyzing the potential costs and benefits of 
14energy storage systems. When examining the cost-effectiveness 
15of energy storage systems, the independent consultant must 
16analyze:
17        (1) cost savings to ratepayers from the provision of 
18    services, including, but not limited to, energy price 
19    arbitrage, ancillary services, resource adequacy, and 
20    transmission and distribution asset deferral or 
21    substitution;
22        (2) direct-cost savings to customers that deploy 
23    energy storage systems;
 
 
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1        (3) an improved ability to integrate renewable 
2    resources;
3        (4) improved reliability and power quality;
4        (5) the effect on retail electric rates over the useful 
5    life of a given energy storage system compared to the 
6    impact on retail electric rates using a nonenergy storage 
7    system alternative over the useful life of the nonenergy 
8    storage system alternative;
9        (6) reduced greenhouse gas emissions; and
10        (7) any other value reasonably related to the 
11    application of energy storage system technology.
12    (b) The Illinois Commerce Commission must submit the report 
13to the General Assembly and the Governor by December 31, 2019.
 
 
14    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
15becoming law.