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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB0702
Introduced 2/6/2009, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning service obligations.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing |
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| Section 16-103 as follows:
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| (220 ILCS 5/16-103)
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| Sec. 16-103. Service obligations of electric utilities.
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| (a) An electric utility shall continue offering to
retail |
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| customers each tariffed service that
that it offered as a
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| distinct and identifiable service on the effective date of
this |
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| amendatory Act of 1997 until the service is (i) declared
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| competitive pursuant to Section 16-113, or (ii) abandoned
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| pursuant to Section 8-508. Nothing in this subsection shall be
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| construed as limiting an electric utility's right to propose,
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| or the Commission's power to approve, allow or order
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| modifications in the rates, terms and conditions for such
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| services pursuant to Article IX or Section 16-111 of this Act. |
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| (b) An electric utility shall also offer, as tariffed
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| services, delivery services in accordance with this Article,
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| the power purchase options described in Section 16-110 and
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| real-time pricing as provided in Section 16-107.
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| (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article,
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| each electric utility shall continue offering to all
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| residential customers and to all small commercial retail
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| customers in its service area, as a tariffed service, bundled |
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| electric power
and
energy delivered to the customer's premises |
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| consistent with
the bundled utility service provided by the |
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| electric utility
on the effective date of this amendatory Act |
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| of 1997. Upon
declaration of the provision of electric power |
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| and energy as
competitive, the electric utility shall continue |
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| to offer to
such customers, as a tariffed service, bundled |
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| service options
at rates which reflect recovery of all cost |
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| components for
providing the service. For those components of |
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| the service
which have been declared competitive, cost shall be |
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| the market
based prices. Market based prices as referred to |
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| herein shall
mean, for electric power and energy, either (i) |
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| those prices
for electric power and energy determined as |
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| provided in
Section 16-112, or (ii) the electric utility's cost |
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| of
obtaining the electric power and energy at wholesale through |
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| a
competitive bidding or other arms-length acquisition |
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| process.
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| (d) Any residential or small commercial retail customer
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| which elects delivery services is entitled to return to the
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| electric utility's bundled utility tariffed service offering
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| provided in accordance with subsection (c) of this Section
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| payment of a reasonable administrative fee which shall be
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| forth in the tariff, provided, however, that the electric
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| utility shall be entitled to impose the condition that such
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| customer may not elect delivery services for up to 24 months
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