Bill Text: IL SB1538 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Renewable Energy Production District Act. Changes the definition of "renewable energy facility" to include, among other things, small modular reactors. Defines "small modular reactor". Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-11 - Assigned to Energy and Public Utilities [SB1538 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2025-SB1538-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Renewable Energy Production District Act is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
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| 6 | (70 ILCS 1950/5) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 5. Definitions. "Board" means the board of trustees | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | of a renewable energy production special district created | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | under this Act. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | "District" means a renewable energy production special | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | district created under this Act. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | "Renewable energy facility" means a generator that is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | attached to a building or parcel of land and that is powered by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | methane gas generated from landfills, solar electric energy or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | wind, dedicated crops grown for electricity generation, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | anaerobic digestion of livestock or food processing waste, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | fuel cells or microturbines powered by renewable fuels, or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | hydroelectric energy. "Renewable energy facility" includes a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | small modular reactor. "Renewable fuels" does not include the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | incineration or burning of tires, garbage, general household, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | institutional, or commercial waste, industrial lunchroom or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | office waste, landscape waste other than tree waste, railroad | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | crossties, utility poles, or construction or demolition | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | debris, other than untreated and unadulterated waste wood. | ||||||
| 2 | "Small modular reactor" means an advanced nuclear reactor | ||||||
| 3 | that has a rated nameplate capacity of 300 electrical | ||||||
| 4 | megawatts or less and may be constructed and operated in | ||||||
| 5 | combination with similar reactors at a single site. | ||||||
| 6 | (Source: P.A. 97-265, eff. 8-8-11; 97-1110, eff. 8-27-12.)
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| 7 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 8 | becoming law. | ||||||