Illinois Administrative Code › Title 83 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part 452 - STANDARDS OF CONDUCT AND FUNCTIONAL SEPARATION › Subpart A - FUNCTIONALLY SEPARATED UTILITY RULES › Section 452.20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Act" means the Public Utilities Act [220 ILCS 5 ].
"Administrative support" means employees and other persons,
				  equipment and systems used to provide administrative support to both the
				  transmission and distribution system and the generation function of the electric
				  utility. Administrative support includes administrative services (including travel
				  administration, security, printing, graphics, custodial services, secretarial
				  support, mail services, and records management), financial management services
				  (including accounting, treasury, internal audit, tax, and financial reporting and
				  planning), data processing, shareholder services, human resources, employee
				  benefits, regulatory affairs, legal services, lobbying, strategic planning and
				  similar administrative support items.
"Affiliated interest" has the same meaning as in Section 7-101(2)
				  of the Act [220 ILCS
				  5/7-101(2) ].
"Alternative Retail Electric Supplier" or "ARES" has the same
				  meaning as in Section 16-102 of the Act [220 ILCS
				  5/16-102 ]. ARES may be singular or plural.
"Ancillary services" means those services specified as ancillary
				  services in each electric utility's delivery services tariff as approved by the
				  Illinois Commerce Commission (Commission).
"Company leadership" means officers, directors, and managers with
				  senior level oversight or governance responsibility (i.e., executive functions) for
				  both the T&D function and the generation function of the electric
				  utility.
"Delivery services" has the same meaning as in Section 16-102 of
				  the Act [220 ILCS 5/16-102
				  ].
"Delivery services employee" means any transmission and
				  distribution function employee or other person who operates, directs, organizes or
				  plans the provision of delivery services, administers the delivery services tariff,
				  processes or executes delivery services transactions, or performs system design or
				  configuration, system operations or business planning for the provision of delivery
				  services.
"Electric utility" has the same meaning as in Section 16-102 of
				  the Act [220 ILCS 5/16-102].
"Generation function" means all divisions, departments, sections,
				  parts, units and facilities (other than transmission and distribution facilities)
				  used by the electric utility to provide generation services. The generation function
				  includes both the mandatory generation function and the merchant generation
				  function.
"Generation services" or "generating services" means the
				  production, purchase, or marketing for retail sale; or the retail sale, of electric
				  power or energy. Generation services include mandatory generation service and
				  merchant generation service.
"Generation function employee" means any electric utility employee
				  or other person performing work for the generation function.
"Mandatory generation function" means all divisions, departments,
				  sections, parts, units and facilities of the electric utility's generation function
				  engaged in the marketing and retail sale of mandatory generation services.
"Mandatory generation function employee" means any electric
				  utility employee or other person performing work for the mandatory generation
				  function.
"Mandatory generation services" means any services that an
				  electric utility must offer pursuant to Section 16-103(a) and (c), Section 16-107
				  and Section 16-110 of the Act [220 ILCS
				  5/16-103(a) and (c), 16 -107 and 16-110]
				  and shall not be construed to include any services provided pursuant to tariffs or
				  contracts authorized by Section 9-102.1 of the Act [220 ILCS
				  5/9-102.1] or services provided pursuant to contracts filed
				  with, and approved by, the Commission under Section 9-201 of the Act [220 ILCS
				  5/9-201 ].
"Merchant generation function" means all divisions, departments,
				  sections, parts, units and facilities of the electric utility's generation function
				  engaged in the marketing and retail sale of merchant generation services.
"Merchant generation function employee" means any electric utility
				  employee or other person performing work for the merchant generation
				  function.
"Merchant generation services" means any generation service
				  offered by an electric utility at retail to its customers that is not a mandatory
				  generation service. Merchant generation services include, but is not limited
				  to:
generation services provided pursuant to Sections 9-102.1, 16-106,
				  and 16-116 of the Act [220 ILCS 5/9-102.1, 16-106, and
				  16-116]; and
any contracts filed with and approved by the Commission pursuant
				  to Section 9-201 of the Act [220 ILCS 5/9-201 ].
"Non-affiliated ARES" means an ARES that is not an affiliated
				  interest of the electric utility.
"Power purchase option" means the power purchase options set out
				  in Section 16-110 of the Act [220 ILCS
				  5/16-110 ] for delivery services customers.
"Principal service area" means the geographic area in which, or
				  customers for which, an electric utility directly uses its transmission or
				  distribution facilities to accomplish the delivery of retail power or energy. An
				  electric utility shall be deemed to have its principal service area in Illinois if
				  either a majority (i.e., more than 50.0 %) of the geographic area in which, or a
				  majority of the customers for which, it directly uses its transmission or
				  distribution facilities to accomplish the delivery of retail power or energy is
				  located in Illinois. Notwithstanding any other portion of this definition, this Part
				  shall also apply to any successor of any electric utility subject to the
				  requirements of Section 16-119A of the Act as of December 16, 1997 and to any
				  electric utility that subsequently provides transmission and distribution directly
				  to the geographic area or the retail customers of any electric utility subject to
				  Section 16-119A of the Act as of December 16, 1997.
"Transmission and distribution function" or "T&D function"
				  means all divisions, departments, sections, parts, units, and personnel of the
				  electric utility responsible for transmission and distribution facilities or
				  delivery services. This function includes, without limitation, the provision to any
				  entity of services that are necessary for the transmission and distribution system
				  to function in order to effect the delivery or sale of power and/or energy to retail
				  consumers.
"Transmission and distribution function employee" means any
				  electric utility employee or other person performing work for the transmission and
				  distribution function.