Illinois Administrative Code › Title 83 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part 1200 - FEE ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION FOR REGULAR PROCUREMENT EVENTS, SPECIAL PROCUREMENT EVENTS AND OTHER SERVICES › Subpart A - INTRODUCTION › Section 1200.110 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following terms are defined for this Part:
"Act" shall mean the Illinois Power Agency Act [20 ILCS 3855
				  ].
"Agency" shall mean the Illinois Power Agency.
"ARES" shall mean an Alternative Retail Electric Supplier, as
				  defined in Section 16-102 of the Public Utilities Act.
"Attributable Portion" shall mean the share of a fixed expense
				  assigned to a participating utility.
"Bidder" shall mean any person or entity that bids to provide
				  electric supply or related energy products (e.g., renewable energy credits, energy
				  efficiency credits, or demand response) or feedstock for any facility using clean
				  coal technology in any amount in any procurement.
"Commission" shall mean the Illinois Commerce Commission.
"Mediation" shall have the meaning provided in the specific
				  Section of the Act or the Public Utilities Act authorizing or requiring the Agency
				  to offer mediation in a particular instance.
"Overhead" shall mean the Agency's appropriated operations budget,
				  excluding budgeted amounts for one or more procurement administrators, as defined in
				  Section 16-111.5(c) of the Public Utilities Act, any expert or expert consulting
				  firm as defined in Sections 1-75(a)(1) and 1-77(a)(1) of the Act or any other
				  individual or firm the Agency is required to retain pursuant to the Act or the
				  Public Utilities Act.
"Participating Utility" shall mean any utility for which the
				  Agency conducts a regular procurement or special procurement.
"Planning Cycle" shall mean the time period starting no later than
				  January 1 of a year and ending with the Commission issuing a Final Order in a
				  proceeding pursuant to Section 1-78 of the Act or Section 16-111.5 or 16-111.5B of
				  the Public Utilities Act, but in any event no later than December 31 of the same
				  year, unless the Commission grants rehearing or a party appeals the Commission's
				  Final Order.
"Procurement" shall mean any competitive bidding process overseen
				  by the Agency or its agents, representatives or consultants. Procurement events are
				  limited to bidding for electric supply or related energy products (such as renewable
				  energy credits, energy efficiency credits, or demand response) and feedstock for any
				  facility using clean coal technology.
"Procurement Administrator" shall have the meaning provided in
				  Section 1-78 of the Act.
"Procurement Cycle" shall mean the time from the end of the
				  planning cycle to the execution of the final supply contract or sourcing agreement
				  authorized in a procurement approved in the planning cycle.
"Procurement Event" shall mean the actual procurement of a product
				  or products for one or more participating utilities and, as applicable, an ARES, or
				  a State fund, regardless of whether the event results in any product being
				  procured.
"Procurement Plan" shall have the meaning provided in Section
				  1-75(a) of the Act.
"Product" shall mean:
energy, capacity, ancillary services, other measures of
				  electricity supplied, energy efficiency, demand response, or reductions in demand
				  for electricity (through commercially verifiable methods such as verified voluntary
				  load reduction) that can be measured in a singly unit specified by the Agency in the
				  procurement document; and
renewable energy credits.
"Public Utilities Act" shall mean 220 ILCS 5.
"Regular Procurement" shall mean any procurement authorized by a
				  procurement plan duly approved by the Commission.
"Sourcing Agreement" shall mean a contract between a clean coal
				  SNG facility, a clean coal SNG brownfield facility, an initial clean coal facility,
				  a clean coal facility, or any other similar bilateral contract between a facility
				  and a public utility or ARES described in the Public Utilities Act or the
				  Act.
"Special Procurement" shall mean any procurement that is not a
				  regular procurement and that becomes mandated for a particular Procurement Cycle
				  after its associated procurement Planning Cycle has ended.
"Supplier" shall mean any bidder who successfully secures the
				  right to provide one or more units of one or more products in a procurement
				  event.