Bill Text: IL HB3822 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Public Utilities Act. In provisions concerning recovery of the costs associated with the purchase of zero emission credits from zero emission facilities, requires the electric utility to deposit the monies collected under the tariffed charges for the delivery year commencing June 1, 2020 into a separate interest bearing account of a financial institution. Provides that the Commission shall not conduct an annual review, reconciliation, and true-up associated with renewable energy resources' collections and costs for the delivery year commencing June 1, 2021, and provides that the Commission shall instead conduct a single review, reconciliation, and true-up associated with renewable energy resources' collections and costs for the 5-year period beginning June 1, 2017 and ending May 31, 2022 (rather than for the 4-year period beginning June 1, 2017 and ending May 31, 2021). Makes conforming changes.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-23 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3822 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB3822-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB3822 Introduced , by Rep. Jim Durkin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
220 ILCS 5/16-108
Amends the Public Utilities Act. In provisions concerning recovery of the costs associated with the purchase of zero emission credits from zero emission facilities, requires the , the electric utility to deposit the monies collected under the tariffed charges for the delivery year commencing June 1, 2020 into a separate interest bearing account of a financial institution. Provides that the Commission shall not conduct an annual review, reconciliation, and true-up associated with renewable energy resources' collections and costs for the delivery year commencing June 1, 2021, and provides that the Commission shall instead conduct a single review, reconciliation, and true-up associated with renewable energy resources' collections and costs for the 5-year period beginning June 1, 2017 and ending May 31, 2022 (rather than for the 4-year period begiinning June 1, 2017 and ending May 31, 2021). Makes conforming changes.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing
Section 16-108 as follows:
(220 ILCS 5/16-108)
Sec. 16-108. Recovery of costs associated with the
provision of delivery and other services.
(a) An electric utility shall file a delivery services
tariff with the Commission at least 210 days prior to the date
that it is required to begin offering such services pursuant
to this Act. An electric utility shall provide the components
of delivery services that are subject to the jurisdiction of
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at the same prices,
terms and conditions set forth in its applicable tariff as
approved or allowed into effect by that Commission. The
Commission shall otherwise have the authority pursuant to
Article IX to review, approve, and modify the prices, terms
and conditions of those components of delivery services not
subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, including the authority to determine the extent to
which such delivery services should be offered on an unbundled
basis. In making any such determination the Commission shall

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consider, at a minimum, the effect of additional unbundling on
(i) the objective of just and reasonable rates, (ii) electric
utility employees, and (iii) the development of competitive
markets for electric energy services in Illinois.
(b) The Commission shall enter an order approving, or
approving as modified, the delivery services tariff no later
than 30 days prior to the date on which the electric utility
must commence offering such services. The Commission may
subsequently modify such tariff pursuant to this Act.
(c) The electric utility's tariffs shall define the
classes of its customers for purposes of delivery services
charges. Delivery services shall be priced and made available
to all retail customers electing delivery services in each
such class on a nondiscriminatory basis regardless of whether
the retail customer chooses the electric utility, an affiliate
of the electric utility, or another entity as its supplier of
electric power and energy. Charges for delivery services shall
be cost based, and shall allow the electric utility to recover
the costs of providing delivery services through its charges
to its delivery service customers that use the facilities and
services associated with such costs. Such costs shall include
the costs of owning, operating and maintaining transmission
and distribution facilities. The Commission shall also be
authorized to consider whether, and if so to what extent, the
following costs are appropriately included in the electric
utility's delivery services rates: (i) the costs of that

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portion of generation facilities used for the production and
absorption of reactive power in order that retail customers
located in the electric utility's service area can receive
electric power and energy from suppliers other than the
electric utility, and (ii) the costs associated with the use
and redispatch of generation facilities to mitigate
constraints on the transmission or distribution system in
order that retail customers located in the electric utility's
service area can receive electric power and energy from
suppliers other than the electric utility. Nothing in this
subsection shall be construed as directing the Commission to
allocate any of the costs described in (i) or (ii) that are
found to be appropriately included in the electric utility's
delivery services rates to any particular customer group or
geographic area in setting delivery services rates.
(d) The Commission shall establish charges, terms and
conditions for delivery services that are just and reasonable
and shall take into account customer impacts when establishing
such charges. In establishing charges, terms and conditions
for delivery services, the Commission shall take into account
voltage level differences. A retail customer shall have the
option to request to purchase electric service at any delivery
service voltage reasonably and technically feasible from the
electric facilities serving that customer's premises provided
that there are no significant adverse impacts upon system
reliability or system efficiency. A retail customer shall also

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have the option to request to purchase electric service at any
point of delivery that is reasonably and technically feasible
provided that there are no significant adverse impacts on
system reliability or efficiency. Such requests shall not be
unreasonably denied.
(e) Electric utilities shall recover the costs of
installing, operating or maintaining facilities for the
particular benefit of one or more delivery services customers,
including without limitation any costs incurred in complying
with a customer's request to be served at a different voltage
level, directly from the retail customer or customers for
whose benefit the costs were incurred, to the extent such
costs are not recovered through the charges referred to in
subsections (c) and (d) of this Section.
(f) An electric utility shall be entitled but not required
to implement transition charges in conjunction with the
offering of delivery services pursuant to Section 16-104. If
an electric utility implements transition charges, it shall
implement such charges for all delivery services customers and
for all customers described in subsection (h), but shall not
implement transition charges for power and energy that a
retail customer takes from cogeneration or self-generation
facilities located on that retail customer's premises, if such
facilities meet the following criteria:
(i) the cogeneration or self-generation facilities
serve a single retail customer and are located on that

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retail customer's premises (for purposes of this
subparagraph and subparagraph (ii), an industrial or
manufacturing retail customer and a third party contractor
that is served by such industrial or manufacturing
customer through such retail customer's own electrical
distribution facilities under the circumstances described
in subsection (vi) of the definition of "alternative
retail electric supplier" set forth in Section 16-102,
shall be considered a single retail customer);
(ii) the cogeneration or self-generation facilities
either (A) are sized pursuant to generally accepted
engineering standards for the retail customer's electrical
load at that premises (taking into account standby or
other reliability considerations related to that retail
customer's operations at that site) or (B) if the facility
is a cogeneration facility located on the retail
customer's premises, the retail customer is the thermal
host for that facility and the facility has been designed
to meet that retail customer's thermal energy requirements
resulting in electrical output beyond that retail
customer's electrical demand at that premises, comply with
the operating and efficiency standards applicable to
"qualifying facilities" specified in title 18 Code of
Federal Regulations Section 292.205 as in effect on the
effective date of this amendatory Act of 1999;
(iii) the retail customer on whose premises the

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facilities are located either has an exclusive right to
receive, and corresponding obligation to pay for, all of
the electrical capacity of the facility, or in the case of
a cogeneration facility that has been designed to meet the
retail customer's thermal energy requirements at that
premises, an identified amount of the electrical capacity
of the facility, over a minimum 5-year period; and
(iv) if the cogeneration facility is sized for the
retail customer's thermal load at that premises but
exceeds the electrical load, any sales of excess power or
energy are made only at wholesale, are subject to the
jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
and are not for the purpose of circumventing the
provisions of this subsection (f).
If a generation facility located at a retail customer's
premises does not meet the above criteria, an electric utility
implementing transition charges shall implement a transition
charge until December 31, 2006 for any power and energy taken
by such retail customer from such facility as if such power and
energy had been delivered by the electric utility. Provided,
however, that an industrial retail customer that is taking
power from a generation facility that does not meet the above
criteria but that is located on such customer's premises will
not be subject to a transition charge for the power and energy
taken by such retail customer from such generation facility if
the facility does not serve any other retail customer and

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either was installed on behalf of the customer and for its own
use prior to January 1, 1997, or is both predominantly fueled
by byproducts of such customer's manufacturing process at such
premises and sells or offers an average of 300 megawatts or
more of electricity produced from such generation facility
into the wholesale market. Such charges shall be calculated as
provided in Section 16-102, and shall be collected on each
kilowatt-hour delivered under a delivery services tariff to a
retail customer from the date the customer first takes
delivery services until December 31, 2006 except as provided
in subsection (h) of this Section. Provided, however, that an
electric utility, other than an electric utility providing
service to at least 1,000,000 customers in this State on
January 1, 1999, shall be entitled to petition for entry of an
order by the Commission authorizing the electric utility to
implement transition charges for an additional period ending
no later than December 31, 2008. The electric utility shall
file its petition with supporting evidence no earlier than 16
months, and no later than 12 months, prior to December 31,
2006. The Commission shall hold a hearing on the electric
utility's petition and shall enter its order no later than 8
months after the petition is filed. The Commission shall
determine whether and to what extent the electric utility
shall be authorized to implement transition charges for an
additional period. The Commission may authorize the electric
utility to implement transition charges for some or all of the

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additional period, and shall determine the mitigation factors
to be used in implementing such transition charges; provided,
that the Commission shall not authorize mitigation factors
less than 110% of those in effect during the 12 months ended
December 31, 2006. In making its determination, the Commission
shall consider the following factors: the necessity to
implement transition charges for an additional period in order
to maintain the financial integrity of the electric utility;
the prudence of the electric utility's actions in reducing its
costs since the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997;
the ability of the electric utility to provide safe, adequate
and reliable service to retail customers in its service area;
and the impact on competition of allowing the electric utility
to implement transition charges for the additional period.
(g) The electric utility shall file tariffs that establish
the transition charges to be paid by each class of customers to
the electric utility in conjunction with the provision of
delivery services. The electric utility's tariffs shall define
the classes of its customers for purposes of calculating
transition charges. The electric utility's tariffs shall
provide for the calculation of transition charges on a
customer-specific basis for any retail customer whose average
monthly maximum electrical demand on the electric utility's
system during the 6 months with the customer's highest monthly
maximum electrical demands equals or exceeds 3.0 megawatts for
electric utilities having more than 1,000,000 customers, and

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for other electric utilities for any customer that has an
average monthly maximum electrical demand on the electric
utility's system of one megawatt or more, and (A) for which
there exists data on the customer's usage during the 3 years
preceding the date that the customer became eligible to take
delivery services, or (B) for which there does not exist data
on the customer's usage during the 3 years preceding the date
that the customer became eligible to take delivery services,
if in the electric utility's reasonable judgment there exists
comparable usage information or a sufficient basis to develop
such information, and further provided that the electric
utility can require customers for which an individual
calculation is made to sign contracts that set forth the
transition charges to be paid by the customer to the electric
utility pursuant to the tariff.
(h) An electric utility shall also be entitled to file
tariffs that allow it to collect transition charges from
retail customers in the electric utility's service area that
do not take delivery services but that take electric power or
energy from an alternative retail electric supplier or from an
electric utility other than the electric utility in whose
service area the customer is located. Such charges shall be
calculated, in accordance with the definition of transition
charges in Section 16-102, for the period of time that the
customer would be obligated to pay transition charges if it
were taking delivery services, except that no deduction for

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delivery services revenues shall be made in such calculation,
and usage data from the customer's class shall be used where
historical usage data is not available for the individual
customer. The customer shall be obligated to pay such charges
on a lump sum basis on or before the date on which the customer
commences to take service from the alternative retail electric
supplier or other electric utility, provided, that the
electric utility in whose service area the customer is located
shall offer the customer the option of signing a contract
pursuant to which the customer pays such charges ratably over
the period in which the charges would otherwise have applied.
(i) An electric utility shall be entitled to add to the
bills of delivery services customers charges pursuant to
Sections 9-221, 9-222 (except as provided in Section 9-222.1),
and Section 16-114 of this Act, Section 5-5 of the Electricity
Infrastructure Maintenance Fee Law, Section 6-5 of the
Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, and Coal Resources
Development Law of 1997, and Section 13 of the Energy
Assistance Act.
(j) If a retail customer that obtains electric power and
energy from cogeneration or self-generation facilities
installed for its own use on or before January 1, 1997,
subsequently takes service from an alternative retail electric
supplier or an electric utility other than the electric
utility in whose service area the customer is located for any
portion of the customer's electric power and energy

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requirements formerly obtained from those facilities
(including that amount purchased from the utility in lieu of
such generation and not as standby power purchases, under a
cogeneration displacement tariff in effect as of the effective
date of this amendatory Act of 1997), the transition charges
otherwise applicable pursuant to subsections (f), (g), or (h)
of this Section shall not be applicable in any year to that
portion of the customer's electric power and energy
requirements formerly obtained from those facilities,
provided, that for purposes of this subsection (j), such
portion shall not exceed the average number of kilowatt-hours
per year obtained from the cogeneration or self-generation
facilities during the 3 years prior to the date on which the
customer became eligible for delivery services, except as
provided in subsection (f) of Section 16-110.
(k) The electric utility shall be entitled to recover
through tariffed charges all of the costs associated with the
purchase of zero emission credits from zero emission
facilities to meet the requirements of subsection (d-5) of
Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power Agency Act. Such costs
shall include the costs of procuring the zero emission
credits, as well as the reasonable costs that the utility
incurs as part of the procurement processes and to implement
and comply with plans and processes approved by the Commission
under such subsection (d-5). The costs shall be allocated
across all retail customers through a single, uniform cents

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per kilowatt-hour charge applicable to all retail customers,
which shall appear as a separate line item on each customer's
bill. Beginning June 1, 2017, the electric utility shall be
entitled to recover through tariffed charges all of the costs
associated with the purchase of renewable energy resources to
meet the renewable energy resource standards of subsection (c)
of Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power Agency Act, under
procurement plans as approved in accordance with that Section
and Section 16-111.5 of this Act. Such costs shall include the
costs of procuring the renewable energy resources, as well as
the reasonable costs that the utility incurs as part of the
procurement processes and to implement and comply with plans
and processes approved by the Commission under such Sections.
The costs associated with the purchase of renewable energy
resources shall be allocated across all retail customers in
proportion to the amount of renewable energy resources the
utility procures for such customers through a single, uniform
cents per kilowatt-hour charge applicable to such retail
customers, which shall appear as a separate line item on each
such customer's bill.
Notwithstanding whether the Commission has approved the
initial long-term renewable resources procurement plan as of
June 1, 2017, an electric utility shall place new tariffed
charges into effect beginning with the June 2017 monthly
billing period, to the extent practicable, to begin recovering
the costs of procuring renewable energy resources, as those

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charges are calculated under the limitations described in
subparagraph (E) of paragraph (1) of subsection (c) of Section
1-75 of the Illinois Power Agency Act. Notwithstanding the
date on which the utility places such new tariffed charges
into effect, the utility shall be permitted to collect the
charges under such tariff as if the tariff had been in effect
beginning with the first day of the June 2017 monthly billing
period. For the delivery years commencing June 1, 2017, June
1, 2018, and June 1, 2019, and June 1, 2020, the electric
utility shall deposit into a separate interest bearing account
of a financial institution the monies collected under the
tariffed charges. Any interest earned shall be credited back
to retail customers under the reconciliation proceeding
provided for in this subsection (k), provided that the
electric utility shall first be reimbursed from the interest
for the administrative costs that it incurs to administer and
manage the account. Any taxes due on the funds in the account,
or interest earned on it, will be paid from the account or, if
insufficient monies are available in the account, from the
monies collected under the tariffed charges to recover the
costs of procuring renewable energy resources. Monies
deposited in the account shall be subject to the review,
reconciliation, and true-up process described in this
subsection (k) that is applicable to the funds collected and
costs incurred for the procurement of renewable energy
resources.

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The electric utility shall be entitled to recover all of
the costs identified in this subsection (k) through automatic
adjustment clause tariffs applicable to all of the utility's
retail customers that allow the electric utility to adjust its
tariffed charges consistent with this subsection (k). The
determination as to whether any excess funds were collected
during a given delivery year for the purchase of renewable
energy resources, and the crediting of any excess funds back
to retail customers, shall not be made until after the close of
the delivery year, which will ensure that the maximum amount
of funds is available to implement the approved long-term
renewable resources procurement plan during a given delivery
year. The electric utility's collections under such automatic
adjustment clause tariffs to recover the costs of renewable
energy resources and zero emission credits from zero emission
facilities shall be subject to separate annual review,
reconciliation, and true-up against actual costs by the
Commission under a procedure that shall be specified in the
electric utility's automatic adjustment clause tariffs and
that shall be approved by the Commission in connection with
its approval of such tariffs. The procedure shall provide that
any difference between the electric utility's collections
under the automatic adjustment charges for an annual period
and the electric utility's actual costs of renewable energy
resources and zero emission credits from zero emission
facilities for that same annual period shall be refunded to or

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collected from, as applicable, the electric utility's retail
customers in subsequent periods.
Nothing in this subsection (k) is intended to affect,
limit, or change the right of the electric utility to recover
the costs associated with the procurement of renewable energy
resources for periods commencing before, on, or after June 1,
2017, as otherwise provided in the Illinois Power Agency Act.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the Commission
shall not conduct an annual review, reconciliation, and
true-up associated with renewable energy resources'
collections and costs for the delivery years commencing June
1, 2017, June 1, 2018, June 1, 2019, and June 1, 2020, and June
1, 2021, and shall instead conduct a single review,
reconciliation, and true-up associated with renewable energy
resources' collections and costs for the 5-year 4-year period
beginning June 1, 2017 and ending May 31, 2022 2021, provided
that the review, reconciliation, and true-up shall not be
initiated until after August 31, 2022 2021. During the 5-year
4-year period, the utility shall be permitted to collect and
retain funds under this subsection (k) and to purchase
renewable energy resources under an approved long-term
renewable resources procurement plan using those funds
regardless of the delivery year in which the funds were
collected during the 5-year 4-year period.
If the amount of funds collected during the delivery year
commencing June 1, 2017, exceeds the costs incurred during

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that delivery year, then up to half of this excess amount, as
calculated on June 1, 2018, may be used to fund the programs
under subsection (b) of Section 1-56 of the Illinois Power
Agency Act in the same proportion the programs are funded
under that subsection (b). However, any amount identified
under this subsection (k) to fund programs under subsection
(b) of Section 1-56 of the Illinois Power Agency Act shall be
reduced if it exceeds the funding shortfall. For purposes of
this Section, "funding shortfall" means the difference between
$200,000,000 and the amount appropriated by the General
Assembly to the Illinois Power Agency Renewable Energy
Resources Fund during the period that commences on the
effective date of this amendatory act of the 99th General
Assembly and ends on August 1, 2018.
If the amount of funds collected during the delivery year
commencing June 1, 2018, exceeds the costs incurred during
that delivery year, then up to half of this excess amount, as
calculated on June 1, 2019, may be used to fund the programs
under subsection (b) of Section 1-56 of the Illinois Power
Agency Act in the same proportion the programs are funded
under that subsection (b). However, any amount identified
under this subsection (k) to fund programs under subsection
(b) of Section 1-56 of the Illinois Power Agency Act shall be
reduced if it exceeds the funding shortfall.
If the amount of funds collected during the delivery year
commencing June 1, 2019, exceeds the costs incurred during

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that delivery year, then up to half of this excess amount, as
calculated on June 1, 2020, may be used to fund the programs
under subsection (b) of Section 1-56 of the Illinois Power
Agency Act in the same proportion the programs are funded
under that subsection (b). However, any amount identified
under this subsection (k) to fund programs under subsection
(b) of Section 1-56 of the Illinois Power Agency Act shall be
reduced if it exceeds the funding shortfall.
The funding available under this subsection (k), if any,
for the programs described under subsection (b) of Section
1-56 of the Illinois Power Agency Act shall not reduce the
amount of funding for the programs described in subparagraph
(O) of paragraph (1) of subsection (c) of Section 1-75 of the
Illinois Power Agency Act. If funding is available under this
subsection (k) for programs described under subsection (b) of
Section 1-56 of the Illinois Power Agency Act, then the
long-term renewable resources plan shall provide for the
Agency to procure contracts in an amount that does not exceed
the funding, and the contracts approved by the Commission
shall be executed by the applicable utility or utilities.
(l) A utility that has terminated any contract executed
under subsection (d-5) of Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power
Agency Act shall be entitled to recover any remaining balance
associated with the purchase of zero emission credits prior to
such termination, and such utility shall also apply a credit
to its retail customer bills in the event of any

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over-collection.
(m)(1) An electric utility that recovers its costs of
procuring zero emission credits from zero emission
facilities through a cents-per-kilowatthour charge under
to subsection (k) of this Section shall be subject to the
requirements of this subsection (m). Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary, such electric utility shall,
beginning on April 30, 2018, and each April 30 thereafter
until April 30, 2026, calculate whether any reduction must
be applied to such cents-per-kilowatthour charge that is
paid by retail customers of the electric utility that are
exempt from subsections (a) through (j) of Section 8-103B
of this Act under subsection (l) of Section 8-103B. Such
charge shall be reduced for such customers for the next
delivery year commencing on June 1 based on the amount
necessary, if any, to limit the annual estimated average
net increase for the prior calendar year due to the future
energy investment costs to no more than 1.3% of 5.98 cents
per kilowatt-hour, which is the average amount paid per
kilowatthour for electric service during the year ending
December 31, 2015 by Illinois industrial retail customers,
as reported to the Edison Electric Institute.
The calculations required by this subsection (m) shall
be made only once for each year, and no subsequent rate
impact determinations shall be made.
(2) For purposes of this Section, "future energy

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investment costs" shall be calculated by subtracting the
cents-per-kilowatthour charge identified in subparagraph
(A) of this paragraph (2) from the sum of the
cents-per-kilowatthour charges identified in subparagraph
(B) of this paragraph (2):
(A) The cents-per-kilowatthour charge identified
in the electric utility's tariff placed into effect
under Section 8-103 of the Public Utilities Act that,
on December 1, 2016, was applicable to those retail
customers that are exempt from subsections (a) through
(j) of Section 8-103B of this Act under subsection (l)
of Section 8-103B.
(B) The sum of the following
cents-per-kilowatthour charges applicable to those
retail customers that are exempt from subsections (a)
through (j) of Section 8-103B of this Act under
subsection (l) of Section 8-103B, provided that if one
or more of the following charges has been in effect and
applied to such customers for more than one calendar
year, then each charge shall be equal to the average of
the charges applied over a period that commences with
the calendar year ending December 31, 2017 and ends
with the most recently completed calendar year prior
to the calculation required by this subsection (m):
(i) the cents-per-kilowatthour charge to
recover the costs incurred by the utility under

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subsection (d-5) of Section 1-75 of the Illinois
Power Agency Act, adjusted for any reductions
required under this subsection (m); and
(ii) the cents-per-kilowatthour charge to
recover the costs incurred by the utility under
Section 16-107.6 of the Public Utilities Act.
If no charge was applied for a given calendar year
under item (i) or (ii) of this subparagraph (B), then
the value of the charge for that year shall be zero.
(3) If a reduction is required by the calculation
performed under this subsection (m), then the amount of
the reduction shall be multiplied by the number of years
reflected in the averages calculated under subparagraph
(B) of paragraph (2) of this subsection (m). Such
reduction shall be applied to the cents-per-kilowatthour
charge that is applicable to those retail customers that
are exempt from subsections (a) through (j) of Section
8-103B of this Act under subsection (l) of Section 8-103B
beginning with the next delivery year commencing after the
date of the calculation required by this subsection (m).
(4) The electric utility shall file a notice with the
Commission on May 1 of 2018 and each May 1 thereafter until
May 1, 2026 containing the reduction, if any, which must
be applied for the delivery year which begins in the year
of the filing. The notice shall contain the calculations
made pursuant to this Section. By October 1 of each year

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beginning in 2018, each electric utility shall notify the
Commission if it appears, based on an estimate of the
calculation required in this subsection (m), that a
reduction will be required in the next year.
(Source: P.A. 99-906, eff. 6-1-17.)