Bill Text: IL SB3591 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2013, every electric utility and alternative retail electric supplier shall provide specified information related to the environment through an electronic medium, such as a website or by electronic mail, or through the U.S. Postal Service to its customers on a quarterly basis. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2012-08-24 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-1092 [SB3591 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB3591-Enrolled.html

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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

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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.

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(Source: P.A. 95-481, eff. 8-28-07.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on
January 1, 2013.