Illinois Administrative Code › Title 83 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part 455 - RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARD AND CLEAN COAL STANDARD FOR ALTERNATIVE RETAIL ELECTRIC SUPPLIERS AND UTILITIES OPERATING OUTSIDE THEIR SERVICE AREAS › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 455.10 - Definitions and Incorporations

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following terms as used in this Part shall have the following
				  meanings:
"ACP" means alternative compliance payments.
"Act" means the Public Utilities Act [ 220 ILCS 5 ].
"Agency" means the Illinois Power Agency created by 20 ILCS
				  3855.
"Alternative retail electric supplier"
or "ARES"
means every person, cooperative, corporation, municipal corporation,
				  company, association, joint stock company or association, firm, partnership,
				  individual, or other entity, their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any
				  court whatsoever, that offers electric power or energy for sale, lease or in
				  exchange for other value received to one or more retail customers, or that engages
				  in the delivery or furnishing of electric power or energy to such retail
				  customers
, notwithstanding the exceptions listed in Section 16-102 of the
				  Act. [
				  220 ILCS 5/16-102 ]
"Clean coal facility" or "CCF" means
an electric
				  generating facility that uses primarily coal as a feedstock and that captures and
				  sequesters carbon dioxide emissions
and meets the requirements of Section
				  1-10 of the IPA Act. [
				  20 ILCS 3855/1-10 ]
"Clean coal standard" means the various requirements imposed by
				  Sections 16-115(d)(5) and 16-116(c) of the Act on ARES and electric utilities
				  serving retail customers outside their service areas to source electricity from
				  clean coal facilities.
"Commission" means the Illinois Commerce Commission.
"Compliance period" or "compliance year" means each 12-month
				  period beginning June 1 and ending May 31, commencing June 1, 2009, and the
				  comparable 12-month period in each succeeding year.
"Covered amount of energy supplied" or "covered amount" or "CAES"
				  refers to the amount of energy supplied (megawatt-hours) by an RES that is covered
				  by the electric utility's renewable energy resources procurement obligations
				  pursuant to Section 1-75(c)(1)(B) of the IPA Act. For the compliance year ending May
				  31, 2018, the CAES equals 50% of the energy supplied by the RES to Illinois retail
				  customers during the compliance year. For the compliance year ending May 31, 2019,
				  the CAES equals 75% of the energy supplied by the RES to Illinois retail customers
				  during the compliance year (see Section 16-115D(a)(3.5 ) of the Act). For the
				  compliance year ending May 31, 2020 and thereafter, the CAES equals 100% of the
				  energy supplied by the RES to Illinois retail customers during the compliance
				  year.
"Delivery services"
means those services provided by the
				  electric utility that are necessary in order for the transmission and distribution
				  systems to function so that retail customers located in the electric utility's
				  service area can receive electric power and energy from suppliers other than the
				  electric utility, and shall include, without limitation, standard metering and
				  billing services.
[
				  220 ILCS 5/16-102 ]
"Electric Cooperative" means:
any not-for-profit corporation or other person that owns,
				  controls, operates or manages, directly or indirectly, within this State, any plant,
				  equipment or property for the production, transmission, sale, delivery or furnishing
				  of electricity; and
that has been financed in whole or in part under the
				  federal Rural Electrification Act of 1936
(
				  7
				  USC 909 et seq.) and its successors or created
				  directly or indirectly by an entity that was financed under that
				  Act
.
[ 220 ILCS 30/3.4 ]
"Electric utility" means a public utility, as defined in
				  Section 3-105 of the Act, that has a franchise, license, permit or right to furnish
				  or sell electricity to retail customers within a service area.
[
				  220 ILCS 5/16-102 ]
"IPA Act" means the Illinois Power Agency Act [ 20 ILCS 3855
				  ].
"M-RETS" means the Midwest Renewable Energy Tracking System or its
				  successor.
"Municipal system" means any public utility owned and operated by
				  any political subdivision or municipal corporation of the State of Illinois, or
				  owned by such an entity and operated by its lessee or agent.
"PJM-GATS" means the PJM Environmental Information System
				  Generation Attribute Tracking System or its successor.
"Renewable energy credit" or "REC" means a tradable credit
				  that represents the environmental attributes of a certain amount of energy produced
				  from a renewable energy resource.
[
				  20 ILCS 3855/1-10 ]
"Renewable energy resources" includes energy and its
				  associated renewable energy credit or renewable energy credits from wind, solar
				  thermal energy, photovoltaic cells and panels, biodiesel, anaerobic digestion, crops
				  and untreated and unadulterated organic waste biomass, tree waste, hydropower that
				  does not involve new construction or significant expansion of hydropower dams, and
				  other alternative sources of environmentally preferable energy. For purposes of the
				  Act, landfill gas produced in the State is considered a renewable energy resource.
				  "Renewable energy resources" does not include the incineration or burning of tires,
				  garbage, general household, institutional, and commercial waste, industrial
				  lunchroom or office waste, landscape waste other than tree waste, railroad
				  crossties, utility poles, or construction or demolition debris, other than untreated
				  and unadulterated waste wood.
[
				  20 ILCS 3855/1-10 ] For
				  compliance years that ended on or before May 31, 2017, renewable energy resources
				  also include energy and its associated renewable energy credit or renewable energy
				  credits from other alternative sources of environmentally preferable energy.
"Renewable portfolio standard" or "RPS" means the various
				  requirements imposed by Section 16-115D of the Act on ARES and electric utilities
				  serving retail customers outside their service area.
"Retail customer" has the same meaning as in Section 16-102 of the
				  Act.
"Retail electric supplier" or "RES" includes both ARES and
				  electric utilities serving or seeking to serve retail customers outside their
				  service area.
"Self-Generation Certification" means the Renewable Energy
				  Facility Self-Generation Certification required by Section 455.160.
"Service area" means the geographic area within which an
				  electric utility was lawfully entitled to provide electric power and energy to
				  retail customers
on or before December 16, 1997
and includes the
				  location of any retail customer to which the electric utility was lawfully providing
				  electric utility services on
that
date.
[
				  220 ILCS 5/16-102 ]
"Supplied", in relation to a quantity of energy, means energy
				  obtained by an RES and delivered to a retail customer by an electric utility
				  providing delivery services to the retail customer, with the quantity of energy
				  measured at the customer meter; provided, however, that only with respect to
				  determining whether a combined heat and power system in Illinois supplies
				  electricity primarily to or for the benefit of facilities identified in Section
				  16-115 D(h) of the Act. "Supplied" also includes energy generated by a combined heat
				  power system used at those facilities, regardless of whether it passes through the
				  customer meter, provided that only with respect to determining the requirements of
				  Section 16-115D of the Act for electric utilities serving retail customers outside
				  their service area, "supplied" includes energy obtained by the utility and delivered
				  to retail customers outside of the utility's service area.
"Uncovered amount of energy supplied" or "uncovered amount" or
				  "UAES" refers to the amount of energy supplied (in megawatt-hours (MWh)) by an RES
				  that is not covered by the electric utility's renewable energy resources procurement
				  obligations pursuant to Section 1-75(c)(1)(B) of the IPA Act. For the compliance
				  year ending May 31, 2018, the UAES equals 50% of the energy supplied by the RES to
				  Illinois retail customers during the compliance year. For the compliance year ending
				  May 31, 2019, the UAES equals 25% of the energy supplied by the RES to Illinois
				  retail customers during the compliance year. For compliance years ending May 31,
				  2020 and after, the UAES equals 0% of the energy supplied by the RES to Illinois
				  retail customers during the compliance year.