Bill Text: IL HR0651 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Supports (1) the investigation and consideration of new advanced transmission technologies that offer revolutionary performance benefits when replacing aged transmission infrastructure; (2) the evaluation of new advanced transmission technologies to determine whether they are best able to cost-effectively ensure the continued reliable delivery of electricity while providing revolutionary greater capacity and revolutionary enhanced efficiency on schedules required to meet the state's public policy objectives; (3) the consideration of the ability of these technologies to greatly reduce environmental and visual impacts to communities; and (4) the consideration of the ability of these and other technologies to greatly reduce the overall cost of energy delivery.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-03-08 - Resolution Adopted 101-000-000 [HR0651 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HR0651-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, A secure, reliable, and resilient power grid | ||||||
3 | integrating generation resources serves as a
foundation of a | ||||||
4 | growing economy and is critical to national security; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Regulators, policymakers, and consumers expect | ||||||
6 | generating resources and the grid to
perform extremely | ||||||
7 | reliably; and
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8 | WHEREAS, A significant portion of the nation's | ||||||
9 | transmission facilities is aged and urgently requires
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10 | replacement and substantial upgrading; and
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11 | WHEREAS, Environmental regulations, state renewable and | ||||||
12 | clean energy portfolio standards with
mandated deadlines, | ||||||
13 | state and federal tax policies, other economic factors, and | ||||||
14 | technology developments are
causing some electric generation | ||||||
15 | resources to retire, while substantial replacement generation, | ||||||
16 | some of it fueled
by intermittent resources, is being or is | ||||||
17 | planned to be sited at other locations on the electric grid; | ||||||
18 | and
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19 | WHEREAS, The risk of natural disasters threatens the | ||||||
20 | network of
power transmission and distribution lines, and | ||||||
21 | strengthening the nation's grid with advanced technology can
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1 | increase the grid's resiliency and reliability; and
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2 | WHEREAS, New innovative, cost-effective transmission | ||||||
3 | technologies, including, but not limited to,
high-capacity and | ||||||
4 | high-efficiency conductors and compact transmission towers, | ||||||
5 | are commercially available with
revolutionary, extraordinarily | ||||||
6 | high-performance levels compared to other technologies to | ||||||
7 | address aged circuit and
new generation issues, including much | ||||||
8 | greater increases in grid capacity, much greater improvements | ||||||
9 | in energy transfers,
significantly greater stability and | ||||||
10 | resiliency, much greater efficient use of existing and new | ||||||
11 | rights-of-way, substantial
reduction in transmission line | ||||||
12 | losses, streamlining siting and construction activities, and | ||||||
13 | more rapidly bringing new
and replacement circuits into | ||||||
14 | service; and
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15 | WHEREAS, New and advanced replacement transmission | ||||||
16 | facilities can be designed and deployed to
enable a wide | ||||||
17 | variety of new generating resources and can address technical, | ||||||
18 | environmental, and aesthetic
issues that could impede or limit | ||||||
19 | the development and operation of resources so states can | ||||||
20 | achieve public policy goals on set schedules; and
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21 | WHEREAS, Crowded utility corridors often allow little room | ||||||
22 | for expansion; and
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1 | WHEREAS, Some states have established minimal requirements | ||||||
2 | for approving transmission projects that
use existing | ||||||
3 | corridors with de minimis impacts; and
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4 | WHEREAS, At least one state has established a policy that | ||||||
5 | encourages regulators and grid operators
to support and | ||||||
6 | encourage consideration of advanced transmission line | ||||||
7 | technologies to cost-effectively deliver
benefits; and
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8 | WHEREAS, Substantial benefits will flow from advanced | ||||||
9 | technologies on a cost-per-energy-unit-delivered or
other | ||||||
10 | basis, so state legislators, electric utilities, grid | ||||||
11 | operators, and state public service commissions are
encouraged | ||||||
12 | to optimize investment decisions around the cost-effective use | ||||||
13 | of technologies to yield extraordinarily
high performance from | ||||||
14 | them; therefore, be it
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15 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
16 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
17 | encourage the State of Illinois to support the following: | ||||||
18 | (1) the investigation and consideration of new | ||||||
19 | advanced transmission technologies that offer
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20 | revolutionary performance benefits when replacing aged | ||||||
21 | transmission infrastructure; | ||||||
22 | (2) the evaluation of new advanced transmission | ||||||
23 | technologies to determine whether they are best able
to |
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1 | cost-effectively ensure the continued reliable delivery of | ||||||
2 | electricity while providing revolutionary greater
capacity | ||||||
3 | and revolutionary enhanced efficiency on schedules | ||||||
4 | required to meet the state's public policy objectives; | ||||||
5 | (3) the consideration of the ability of these | ||||||
6 | technologies to greatly reduce environmental and visual
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7 | impacts to communities; and | ||||||
8 | (4) the consideration of the ability of these and other | ||||||
9 | technologies to greatly reduce the overall cost of
energy | ||||||
10 | delivery; and be it further
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11 | RESOLVED, That we encourage efforts to work with regional | ||||||
12 | transmission organizations, independent system operators, and | ||||||
13 | other planning authorities to compare the
cost-effective, | ||||||
14 | revolutionary performance of advanced electric transmission | ||||||
15 | infrastructure options to the
performance of other | ||||||
16 | technologies for increasing grid capacity, reducing | ||||||
17 | transmission line losses, improving
energy transfers, making | ||||||
18 | more efficient use of rights-of-way, improving energy | ||||||
19 | efficiency, and encouraging the
shortest timeframes be put in | ||||||
20 | service by streamlining siting and construction activities in | ||||||
21 | their planning,
evaluation, and oversight of transmission grid | ||||||
22 | development, especially by utilizing existing transmission | ||||||
23 | corridors; and be it further
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24 | RESOLVED, That we encourage the inclusion of supplemental |
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1 | or new
policies of transmission facilities that promote | ||||||
2 | revolutionary, rather than incremental, performance and the
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3 | benefits of the appropriate use of cost-effective advanced | ||||||
4 | electric transmission technologies in support of their
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5 | interest in the continued, timely provision of affordable, | ||||||
6 | reliable electricity to consumers; and be it further
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7 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
8 | delivered to Governor Rauner, all members of the Illinois | ||||||
9 | Commerce Commission, all members of the Illinois Congressional | ||||||
10 | Delegation,
Exelon,
Dynegy,
ComEd,
Ameren,
Mid-American | ||||||
11 | Energy,
Illinois Electrical Cooperatives,
the Electric Power | ||||||
12 | Research Institute,
National Labs (Department of Energy), and | ||||||
13 | the
IEE.
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