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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1569
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 1569 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by
5 changing Sections 16-120 and 16-122 as follows:
6 (220 ILCS 5/16-120)
7 Sec. 16-120. Development of competitive market;
8 Commission study and reports; investigation.
9 (a) On or before December 31, 1999 and once every 3
10 years thereafter, the Commission shall monitor and analyze
11 patterns of entry and exit, applications for entry and exit,
12 and any barriers to entry or participation that may exist,
13 for services provided under this Article; shall analyze any
14 impediments to the establishment of a fully competitive
15 energy and power market in Illinois; and shall include its
16 findings together with appropriate recommendations for
17 legislative action in a report to the General Assembly.
18 (b) Beginning in 2001, and ending in 2006, the
19 Commission shall prepare an annual report regarding the
20 development of electricity markets in Illinois which shall be
21 filed by April 1 of each year with the Joint Committee on
22 Legislative Support Services of the General Assembly and the
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1 Governor and which shall be publicly available. Such report
2 shall include, at a minimum, the following information:
3 (1) the aggregate annual peak demand of retail
4 customers in the State of Illinois in the preceding
5 calendar year;
6 (2) the total annual kilowatt-hours delivered and
7 sold to retail customers in the State of Illinois by each
8 electric utility within its own service territory, each
9 electric utility outside its service territory, and
10 alternative retail electric suppliers in the preceding
11 calendar year;
12 (3) the percentage of the total kilowatt-hours
13 delivered and sold to retail customers in the State of
14 Illinois in the preceding calendar year by each electric
15 utility within its service territory, each electric
16 utility outside its service territory, and each
17 alternative retail electric supplier; and
18 (4) any other information the Commission considers
19 significant in assessing the development of Illinois
20 electricity markets, which may include, to the extent
21 available, information similar to that described in items
22 1, 2 and 3 with respect to cogeneration, self-generation
23 and other sources of electric power and energy provided
24 to customers that do not take delivery services or
25 bundled electric utility services.
26 The Commission may also include such other information as
27 it deems to be necessary or beneficial in describing or
28 explaining the results of its Report. The Report required by
29 this Section shall be adopted by a vote of the full
30 Commission prior to filing. Proprietary or confidential
31 information shall not be disclosed publicly. Nothing
32 contained in this Section shall prohibit the Commission from
33 taking actions that would otherwise be allowed under this
34 Act.
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1 (c) The Commission shall prepare a report on the value
2 of municipal aggregation of electricity customers. The
3 report shall be filed with the General Assembly and the
4 Governor no later than January 15, 2003 and shall be publicly
5 available. The report shall, at a minimum, include:
6 (1) a description and analysis of actual and
7 potential forms of aggregation of electricity customers
8 in Illinois and in the other states, including
9 aggregation through municipal, affinity, and other
10 organizations;
11 (2) estimates of the potential benefits of
12 municipal aggregation to Illinois electricity customers
13 in at least 5 specific municipal examples comparing their
14 costs under bundled rates and unbundled rates, including
15 real-time prices;
16 (3) a description of the barriers to municipal and
17 other forms of aggregation in Illinois, including legal,
18 economic, informational, and other barriers; and
19 (4) options for legislative action to foster
20 municipal and other forms of aggregation of electricity
21 customers.
22 In preparing the report, the Commission shall consult
23 with persons involved in aggregation or the study of
24 aggregation of electricity customers in Illinois, including
25 utilities, aggregators, and non-profit organizations. The
26 provisions of Section 16-122 notwithstanding, the Commission
27 may request and utilities shall provide such aggregated load
28 data as may be necessary to perform the analyses required by
29 this subsection.
30 (Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)
31 (220 ILCS 5/16-122)
32 Sec. 16-122. Customer information.
33 (a) Upon the request of a retail customer, or a person
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1 who presents verifiable authorization and is acting as the
2 customer's agent, and payment of a reasonable fee, electric
3 utilities shall provide to the customer or its authorized
4 agent the customer's billing and usage data.
5 (b) Upon request from any alternative retail electric
6 supplier and payment of a reasonable fee, an electric utility
7 serving retail customers in its service area shall make
8 available generic information concerning the usage, load
9 shape curve or other general characteristics of customers by
10 rate classification. Provided however, no customer specific
11 billing, usage or load shape data shall be provided under
12 this subsection unless authorization to provide such
13 information is provided by the customer pursuant to
14 subsection (a) of this Section.
15 (c) Upon request from a unit of local government and
16 payment of a reasonable fee, an electric utility shall make
17 available information concerning the usage, load shape
18 curves, and other characteristics of customers by customer
19 classification and location within the boundaries of the unit
20 of local government, however, no customer specific billing,
21 usage, or load shape data shall be provided under this
22 subsection unless authorization to provide that information
23 is provided by the customer.
24 (d) (c) All such customer information shall be made
25 available in a timely fashion in an electronic format, if
26 available.
27 (Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)
28 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
29 becoming law.".