Public Act 1092 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SB3591 Enrolled LRB097 20212 CEL 65642 b

Public Act 097-1092

AN ACT concerning utilities.

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 16-127 as follows:

(220 ILCS 5/16-127)

Sec. 16-127. Environmental disclosure.

(a) Effective January 1, 2013 1999, every electric utility and alternative retail electric supplier shall provide the following information, to the maximum extent practicable, with its bills to its customers on a quarterly basis:

(i) the known sources of electricity supplied, broken-out by percentages, of biomass power, coal-fired power, hydro power, natural gas-fired power, nuclear power, oil-fired power, solar power, wind power and other resources, respectively;

(ii) a pie-chart that graphically depicts the percentages of the sources of the electricity supplied as set forth in subparagraph (i) of this subsection; and

(iii) a pie-chart that graphically depicts the quantity of renewable energy resources procured pursuant to Section 1-75 of the Illinois Power Agency Act as a percentage of electricity supplied to serve eligible retail customers as defined in Section 16-111.5(a) of this Act.

(b) In addition, every electric utility and alternative retail electric supplier shall provide, to the maximum extent practicable, with its bills to its customers on a quarterly basis, a standardized chart in a format to be determined by the Commission in a rule following notice and hearings which provides the amounts of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide emissions and nuclear waste attributable to the known sources of electricity supplied as set forth in subparagraph (i) of subsection (a) of this Section.

(c) The electric utilities and alternative retail electric suppliers may provide their customers with such other information as they believe relevant to the information required in subsections (a) and (b) of this Section. All of the information required in subsections (a) and (b) of this Section shall be made available by the electric utilities or alternative retail electric suppliers either in an electronic medium, such as on a website or by electronic mail, or through the U.S. Postal Service.

(d) For the purposes of subsection (a) of this Section, "biomass" means dedicated crops grown for energy production and organic wastes.

(e) All of the information provided in subsections (a) and (b) of this Section shall be presented to the Commission for inclusion in its World Wide Web Site.

(Source: P.A. 95-481, eff. 8-28-07.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on January 1, 2013.

Effective Date: 1/1/2013