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90_HB3607
220 ILCS 5/16-104
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Authorizes choice of
electricity suppliers by residential consumers beginning
October 1, 1999 rather than May 1, 2000.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Public Utilities Act by changing
2 Section 16-104.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by
6 changing Section 16-104 as follows:
7 (220 ILCS 5/16-104)
8 Sec. 16-104. Delivery services transition plan. An
9 electric utility shall provide delivery services to retail
10 customers in accordance with the provisions of this Section.
11 (a) Each electric utility shall offer delivery services
12 to retail customers located in its service area in accordance
13 with the following provisions:
14 (1) On or before October 1, 1999, the electric
15 utility shall offer delivery services (i) to any
16 non-residential retail customer whose average monthly
17 maximum electrical demand on the electric utility's
18 system during the 6 months with the customer's highest
19 monthly maximum demands in the 12 months ending June 30,
20 1999 equals or exceeds 4 megawatts; (ii) to any
21 non-governmental, non-residential, commercial retail
22 customers under common ownership doing business at 10 or
23 more separate locations within the electric utility's
24 service area, if the aggregate coincident average monthly
25 maximum electrical demand of all such locations during
26 the 6 months with the customer's highest monthly maximum
27 electrical demands during the 12 months ending June 30,
28 1999 equals or exceeds 9.5 megawatts, provided, however,
29 that an electric utility's obligation to offer delivery
30 services under this clause (ii) shall not exceed 3.5% of
31 the maximum electric demand on the electric utility's
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1 system in the 12 months ending June 30, 1999; and (iii)
2 to non-residential retail customers whose annual electric
3 energy use comprises 33% of the kilowatt-hour sales,
4 excluding the kilowatt-hour sales to customers described
5 in clauses (i) and (ii), to each non-residential retail
6 customer class of the electric utility.
7 (2) On or before October 1, 2000, the electric
8 utility shall offer delivery services to the eligible
9 governmental customers described in subsections (a) and
10 (b) of Section 16-125A if the aggregate coincident
11 average monthly maximum electrical demand of such
12 customers during the 6 months with the customers' highest
13 monthly maximum electrical demands during the 12 months
14 ending June 30, 2000 equals or exceeds 9.5 megawatts.
15 (3) On or before December 31, 2000, the electric
16 utility shall offer delivery services to all remaining
17 nonresidential retail customers in its service area.
18 (4) On or before October 1, 1999 May 1, 2002, the
19 electric utility shall offer delivery services to all
20 residential retail customers in its service area.
21 The loads and kilowatt-hour sales used for purposes of
22 this subsection shall be those for the 12 months ending June
23 30, 1999 for nonresidential retail customers. The electric
24 utility shall identify those customers to be offered delivery
25 service pursuant to clause (1)(iii) pursuant to a lottery or
26 other random nondiscriminatory selection process set forth in
27 the electric utility's delivery services implementation plan
28 pursuant to Section 16-105. Provided, that non-residential
29 retail customers under common ownership at separate locations
30 within the electric utility's service area may elect, prior
31 to the date the electric utility conducts the lottery or
32 other random selection process for purposes of clause
33 (1)(iii), to designate themselves as a common ownership
34 group, to be excluded from such lottery and to instead
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1 participate in a separate lottery for such common ownership
2 group pursuant to which delivery services will be offered to
3 non-residential retail customers comprising 33% of the total
4 kilowatt-hour sales to the common ownership group on or
5 before October 1, 1999. For purposes of this subsection (a),
6 an electric utility may define "common ownership" to exclude
7 sites which are not part of the same business, provided, that
8 auxiliary establishments as defined in the Standard
9 Industrial Classification Manual published by the United
10 States Office of Management and Budget shall not be excluded.
11 (b) The electric utility shall allow the aggregation of
12 loads that are eligible for delivery services so long as such
13 aggregation meets the criteria for delivery of electric power
14 and energy applicable to the electric utility established by
15 the regional reliability council to which the electric
16 utility belongs, by an independent system operating
17 organization to which the electric utility belongs, or by
18 another organization responsible for overseeing the integrity
19 and reliability of the transmission system, as such criteria
20 are in effect from time to time. The Commission may adopt
21 rules and regulations governing the criteria for aggregation
22 of the loads utilizing delivery services, but its failure to
23 do so shall not preclude any eligible customer from electing
24 delivery services. The electric utility shall allow such
25 aggregation for any voluntary grouping of customers,
26 including without limitation those having a common agent with
27 contractual authority to purchase electric power and energy
28 and delivery services on behalf of all customers in the
29 grouping.
30 (c) An electric utility shall allow a retail customer
31 that generates power for its own use to include the
32 electrical demand obtained from the customer's cogeneration
33 or self-generation facilities that is coincident with the
34 retail customer's maximum monthly electrical demand on the
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1 electric utility's system in any determination of the
2 customer's maximum monthly electrical demand for purposes of
3 determining when such retail customer shall be offered
4 delivery services pursuant to clause (i) of subparagraph (1)
5 of subsection (a) of this Section.
6 (d) The Commission shall establish charges, terms and
7 conditions for delivery services in accordance with Section
8 16-108.
9 (e) Subject to the terms and conditions which the
10 electric utility is entitled to impose in accordance with
11 Section 16-108, a retail customer that is eligible to elect
12 delivery services pursuant to subsection (a) may place all or
13 a portion of its electric power and energy requirements on
14 delivery services.
15 (f) An electric utility may require a retail customer
16 who elects to (i) use an alternative retail electric supplier
17 or another electric utility for some but not all of its
18 electric power or energy requirements, and (ii) use the
19 electric utility for any portion of its remaining electric
20 power and energy requirements, to place the portion of the
21 customer's electric power or energy requirement that is to be
22 served by the electric utility on a tariff containing charges
23 that are set to recover the lowest reasonably available cost
24 to the electric utility of acquiring electric power and
25 energy on the wholesale electric market to serve such
26 remaining portion of the customer's electric power and energy
27 requirement, reasonable compensation for arranging for and
28 providing such electric power or energy, and the electric
29 utility's other costs of providing service to such remaining
30 electric power and energy requirement.
31 (Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)