(220 ILCS 5/16-106)
Sec. 16-106.
Billing experiments.
During the mandatory
transition period, an electric utility may at its discretion
conduct one or more experiments for the provision or billing
of services on a consolidated or aggregated basis, for the
provision of real-time pricing, or other billing or pricing
experiments, and may include experimental programs offered to
groups of retail customers possessing common attributes as
defined by the electric utility, such as the members of an
organization that was established to serve a well-defined
industry group, companies having multiple sites, or closely located or
affiliated buildings, provided that such groups
exist for a purpose other than obtaining energy services and
have been in existence for at least 10 years. The offering of
such a program by an electric utility to retail customers
participating in the program, and the participation by those
customers in the program, shall not create any right in any
other retail customer or group of customers to participate in
the same or a similar program. The Commission shall allow
such experiments to go into effect upon the filing by the
electric utility of a statement describing the program.
Nothing contained in this Section shall be deemed to prohibit
the electric utility from offering, or the Commission from
approving, experimental rates, tariffs and services in
addition to those allowed under this Section. The Commission shall review and
report annually the progress, participation and effects of such experiments to
the General Assembly. Based upon its review, recommendations for modification
of such experiments may be made by the Commission to the Illinois General
Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)
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