220 ILCS 5/17-300
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 220 - UTILITIES|220 ILCS 5/ - Public Utilities Act.|Article XVII - Electric Cooperatives And Municipal Systems

Sec. 17-300.         Election to be an alternative retail  electric supplier.(a) An electric cooperative or municipal  system may, by appropriate action, and at the sole discretion  of the governing body of each, make an election to become an  alternative retail electric supplier.  A generation  and  transmission electric cooperative may not, as an alternative retail electric  supplier, serve any present or future retail customers of a distribution  electric cooperative not a member of that generation and transmission electric  cooperative unless at least  30% of the total number of meters of the generation and  transmission electric cooperative's member-cooperatives are eligible to obtain  electric power and energy from an alternative retail electric supplier other  than the generation and transmission electric cooperative or an electric  utility due to member-cooperative elections pursuant to either Section 17-200  or 17-300.(b) Commission authority over an electric cooperative or  municipal system electing to be an alternative retail electric  supplier.  An electric cooperative or municipal system  electing to be an alternative retail electric supplier shall  provide those services in accordance with Sections 16-115A and  16-115B of this Act,  to the extent that these Sections have application to the  services being  offered by the electric cooperative or municipal system as an  alternative retail electric supplier.  In no case shall these  provisions apply to the existing or future customers taking  delivery services from an electric cooperative or municipal  system pursuant to their respective authority under the  Electric Supplier Act or the Illinois Municipal Code.(c) Notification of election to be an alternative retail  electric supplier.  Upon filing notice of intent by an  electric cooperative or a municipal system to become an  alternative retail electric supplier, the Commission  shall  issue within 45 days a certificate of service authority for  the entire State or for a specified geographic area of the  State, as specified in the notice.  Issuance of a certificate  of service authority shall constitute compliance with Section  16-115 of this Act.(d) Delivery services provided by electric cooperatives  or municipal systems.  Municipal systems or electric  cooperatives making an election under this Section shall be  required to provide delivery services on their respective  systems to the electric utility or utilities in whose service  area or areas the proposed service will be offered.  Such  required delivery services to be provided by the electric cooperatives and  municipal systems shall be reasonably  comparable to the delivery services provided to the electric  cooperative's and municipal system's own customers.(e) Exclusive authority over distribution facilities.  Provided that, and subject to their authority to serve  customers pursuant to the Electric Supplier Act with respect  to electric cooperatives and pursuant to the Illinois Municipal Code  with respect to municipal systems, each shall continue to  provide the exclusive distribution facilities for any existing  and future customers that the electric cooperative or municipal system is now  or in the future otherwise entitled  to serve, and which customers are now or in the future  receiving service provided by an alternative retail electric  supplier.    (Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97; 90-624, eff. 7-10-98.)