Full Text of SB3591 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning utilities.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 16-127 as follows:
| 6 | | (220 ILCS 5/16-127)
| 7 | | Sec. 16-127. Environmental disclosure.
| 8 | | (a) Effective January 1, 2013 1999 , every electric utility | 9 | | and
alternative retail electric supplier shall provide the
| 10 | | following information, to the maximum extent practicable, with
| 11 | | its bills to its customers on a quarterly basis:
| 12 | | (i) the known sources of electricity supplied,
| 13 | | broken-out by percentages, of biomass power, coal-fired
| 14 | | power, hydro power, natural gas-fired power, nuclear
| 15 | | power, oil-fired power, solar power, wind power and other
| 16 | | resources, respectively;
| 17 | | (ii) a pie-chart that graphically depicts the
| 18 | | percentages of the sources of the electricity supplied as
| 19 | | set forth in subparagraph (i) of this subsection; and
| 20 | | (iii) a pie-chart that graphically depicts the | 21 | | quantity of renewable energy resources procured pursuant | 22 | | to Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power Agency Act as a | 23 | | percentage of electricity supplied to serve eligible |
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| 1 | | retail customers as defined in Section 16-111.5(a) of this | 2 | | Act.
| 3 | | (b) In addition, every electric utility and alternative
| 4 | | retail electric supplier shall provide, to the maximum extent
| 5 | | practicable, with its bills to its customers on a quarterly
| 6 | | basis, a standardized chart in a format to be determined by
the | 7 | | Commission in a rule following notice and hearings which
| 8 | | provides the amounts of carbon dioxide,
nitrogen oxides
and | 9 | | sulfur dioxide emissions and nuclear waste
attributable to the | 10 | | known sources of electricity supplied as
set forth in | 11 | | subparagraph (i) of subsection (a) of this
Section.
| 12 | | (c) The electric utilities and alternative retail
electric | 13 | | suppliers may provide their customers with such other
| 14 | | information as they believe relevant to the information
| 15 | | required in subsections (a) and (b) of this Section. All of the | 16 | | information required in subsections (a) and (b) of this Section | 17 | | shall be made available by the electric utilities or | 18 | | alternative retail electric suppliers either in an electronic | 19 | | medium, such as on a website or by electronic mail, or through | 20 | | the U.S. Postal Service.
| 21 | | (d) For the purposes of subsection (a) of this Section,
| 22 | | "biomass" means dedicated crops grown for energy production
and | 23 | | organic wastes.
| 24 | | (e) All of the information provided in subsections (a)
and | 25 | | (b) of this Section shall be presented to the Commission
for | 26 | | inclusion in its World Wide Web Site.
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| 1 | | (Source: P.A. 95-481, eff. 8-28-07.)
| 2 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on | 3 | | January 1, 2013.
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