SB 3015

Abstract

Amends the Public Utilities Act. Creates a provision that provides that corporate authorities of a municipality or county board of a county may adopt an ordinance under which it may aggregate residential customers and small commercial customer natural gas loads located, respectively, within the municipality or the unincorporated areas of the county and may solicit bids and enter into service agreements to facilitate for those loads the sale and purchase of natural gas and related services and equipment. Requires the corporate authority or county board to develop a plan of operation and governance for the aggregation program. Sets forth provisions concerning the establishment of a process for selecting a natural gas supplier and awarding a proposed agreement, compliance requirements if the program the corporate authorities or county board operates under is an opt-in program, and disclosure requirements for an opt-out program. Provides that the Illinois Commerce Commission shall adopt rules. Provides that no municipality or county shall implement, in its plan of operation and governance, an opt-out program that automatically enrolls a customer that is currently under contract with an alternative retail gas supplier or an entity that provides services in competition with and similar to an alternative retail gas supplier into its municipal or county opt-out program. Provides that the Commission shall not require a natural gas public utility without a Commission-approved small volume transportation program to accommodate aggregated load switching for any natural gas customers. Effective immediately.