C of C 11-4-2023 4 Major Climate/Energy-Related Legislative Fights for Fall 2023 and Spring 2024
Channel: Tim Bolger
Date: 2024-01-26

November 4
4 Major Climate/Energy-Related Legislative Fights 
coming up starting this fall and into the spring legislative sessions

Meeting # 3,741 - Scott Allen, Citizens Utility Board's Clean Energy Policy Coordinator since 2014, working on issues related to Illinois' publicly-owned municipal and cooperative utilities.

Fall: 
1. Carbon Capture Utilization and Sequestration regulations: this will determine how, and to what extent Illinois becomes the country's dumpster for CO2.

Spring: 
1: "Clean Heat" Legislation - a CEJA for cleaning up the building sector;

2: Transparency Requirements for publicly-owned utilities - the municipal and co-op utilities in the state were carved out of CEJA's emission reduction requirements, and this bill seeks to get them rowing in the same direction.

3. Ameren/MISO Capacity Issues – (Midcontinent Independent System Operator) meeting our renewables targets under CEJA is being threatened by a number of factors, so a bill is being shopped to fix the way that downstate IL's capacity auction is run.

Also the meeting will include some of the initiatives that CUB has going on that people might be interested in for their homes etc.

Information CUB
https://www.citizensutilityboard.org/