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Sen. James F. Clayborne Jr.
Filed: 4/19/2005
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 239
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 239 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing |
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| Section 9-241 as follows:
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| (220 ILCS 5/9-241) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 9-241)
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| Sec. 9-241. No public utility shall, as to rates or other |
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| charges,
services, facilities or in other respect, make or |
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| grant any preference
or advantage to any corporation or person |
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| or subject any corporation or
person to any prejudice or |
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| disadvantage. No public utility shall
establish or maintain any |
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| unreasonable difference as to rates or other
charges, services, |
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| facilities, or in any other respect, either as
between |
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| localities or as between classes of service.
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| However, nothing in this Section shall be construed as |
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| limiting the
authority of the Commission to permit the |
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| establishment of economic
development rates as incentives to |
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| economic development either in
enterprise zones as designated |
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| by the State of Illinois or in other areas
of a utility's |
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| service area. Such rates should be available to existing
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| businesses which demonstrate an increase to existing load as |
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| well as new
businesses which create new load for a utility so |
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| as to create a more balanced
utilization of generating |
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| capacity. The Commission shall ensure that such
rates are |
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| established at a level which provides a net benefit to |
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| customers
within a public utility's service area.
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| Prior to October 1, 1989, no public utility providing |
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| electrical
or gas service shall consider the use of solar or |
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| other nonconventional
renewable sources of energy by a customer |
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| as a basis for establishing higher
rates or charges for any |
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| service or commodity sold to such customer; nor
shall a public |
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| utility subject any customer utilizing such energy source
or |
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| sources to any other prejudice or disadvantage on account of |
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| such use.
No public utility shall without the consent of the |
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| Commission, charge or
receive any greater compensation in the |
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| aggregate for a lesser commodity,
product, or service than for |
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| a greater commodity, product or service of
like character.
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| The Commission, in order to expedite the determination of |
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| rate
questions, or to avoid unnecessary and unreasonable |
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| expense, or to avoid
unjust or unreasonable discrimination |
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| between classes of customers, or,
whenever in the judgment of |
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| the Commission public interest so requires,
may, for rate |
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| making and accounting purposes, or either of them,
consider
one |
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| or more municipalities either with or without the adjacent or
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| intervening rural territory as a regional unit (i) where the |
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| same public
utility serves such region under substantially |
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| similar conditions or (ii) where 2 or more public utilities |
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| under the jurisdiction of the Commission, that are under the |
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| same public utility holding company or that are affiliated with |
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| each other, serve such region under substantially similar |
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| conditions, and may
within such region prescribe uniform rates |
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| for consumers or patrons of the same
class.
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| Any public utility, with the consent and approval of the |
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| Commission, may
as a basis for the determination of the charges |
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| made by it classify its
service according to the amount used, |
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| the time when used, the purpose for
which used, and other |
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| relevant factors.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
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