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4-AN ACT concerning regulation.
5-Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
6-represented in the General Assembly:
7-Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing
8-Section 8-402.2 as follows:
3+1 AN ACT concerning regulation.
4+2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
5+3 represented in the General Assembly:
6+4 Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing
7+5 Section 8-402.2 as follows:
8+6 (220 ILCS 5/8-402.2)
9+7 Sec. 8-402.2. Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment
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11+9 (a) Within one year after the effective date of this
12+10 amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly, each electric
13+11 utility serving over 500,000 retail customers in this State
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16+14 (b) Each utility's Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment
17+15 program shall include the following requirements:
18+16 (1) Each plan shall be designed to offer within the
19+17 utility's service territory to assist public schools, as
20+18 defined by Section 1-3 of the School Code, to increase the
21+19 efficiency of their energy usage, to reduce the carbon
22+20 emissions associated with their energy usage, and to move
23+21 toward a goal of public schools being carbon-free in their
24+22 energy usage by 2030. The program shall include a target
25+23 of completing Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment for
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34+1 all public schools in the utility's service territory by
35+2 December 31, 2029.
36+3 (2) The Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment shall be
37+4 a generally standardized assessment, but may incorporate
38+5 flexibility to reflect the circumstances of individual
39+6 public schools and public school districts.
40+7 (3) The Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment shall
41+8 include, but not be limited to, comprehensive analyses of
42+9 the following subjects:
43+10 (A) The top energy efficiency savings
44+11 opportunities for the public school, by energy saved;
45+12 (B) The total achievable solar energy potential on
46+13 or nearby a public school's premises and able to
47+14 provide power to a school;
48+15 (C) The infrastructure required to support
49+16 electrification of the facility's space heating and
50+17 water heating needs;
51+18 (D) The infrastructure requirements to support
52+19 electrification of a school's transportation needs;
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54+21 (E) The investments required to achieve a WELL
55+22 Certification or similar certification as determined
56+23 through methods developed and updated by the
57+24 International WELL Building Institute or similar or
58+25 successor organizations.
59+26 (4) The Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment also
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70+1 shall include, but not be limited to, mechanical
71+2 insulation evaluation inspection and inspection of the
72+3 building envelope(s).
73+4 (5) With respect to those public school construction
74+5 projects for public schools within the service territory
75+6 of a utility serving over 500,000 retail customers in this
76+7 State and for which a public school district applies for a
77+8 grant under Section 5-40 of the School Construction Law on
78+9 or after June 1, 2023, the district must submit a copy of
79+10 the applicable Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment
80+11 report, or, if no such Public Schools Carbon-Free
81+12 Assessment has been performed, request the applicable
82+13 utility to perform such a Public Schools Carbon-Free
83+14 Assessment and submit a copy of the Public Schools
84+15 Carbon-Free Assessment report promptly when it becomes
85+16 available. The Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment
86+17 report shall include, but not limited to, an energy audit
87+18 of both the building envelope and the building's
88+19 mechanical insulation system. It shall also include an
89+20 inspection of both the building envelope and the
90+21 mechanical insulation system. The district must
91+22 demonstrate how the construction project is designed and
92+23 managed to achieve the goals that all public elementary
93+24 and secondary school facilities in the State are able to
94+25 be powered by clean energy by 2030, and for such
95+26 facilities to achieve carbon-free energy sources for space
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106+1 heat, water heat, and transportation by 2050.
107+2 (6) The results of each Public Schools Carbon-Free
108+3 Assessment shall be memorialized by the utility or by a
109+4 third party acting on behalf of the utility in a
110+5 non-confidential report form that includes recommendations
111+6 and redacts all confidential information. For purposes of
112+7 this Section, "confidential information" means information
113+8 or facts expected and intended to be exempt from
114+9 disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.
115+10 "Confidential information" does not include program
116+11 offerings, solar opportunities, health and safety
117+12 certifications, energy efficiency recommendations,
118+13 information about transportation and other funding
119+14 offerings. The non-confidential form and shall be provided
120+15 to the applicable public school by the utility or the
121+16 third party acting on behalf of the utility. Each utility
122+17 shall be required to retain a copy of each Public Schools
123+18 Carbon-Free Assessment report and to provide copies of
124+19 each non-confidential report to the Illinois Power Agency
125+20 and the Illinois Capital Development Board within 3 months
126+21 after of its completion. The Illinois Power Agency shall
127+22 promptly make the results of each non-confidential report
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129+24 (7) The Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment shall be
130+25 conducted in coordination with each utility's energy
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142+1 8-103A, and 8-103B of this Act, to the extent applicable.
143+2 Nothing in this Section is intended to modify or require
144+3 modification of those plans. However, the utility may
145+4 request a modification of a plan approved by the
146+5 Commission, and the Commission may approve the requested
147+6 modification, if the modification is consistent with the
148+7 provisions of this Section and Section 8-103B of this Act.
149+8 (8) If there are no other providers of assessments
150+9 that are substantively the same as those being performed
151+10 by utilities pursuant to this Section by 2024, a utility
152+11 that has a Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment program
153+12 may offer assessments to public schools that are not
154+13 served by a utility subject to this Section at the
155+14 utility's cost.
156+15 (9) The Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessment shall be
157+16 offered to and performed for public schools in the
158+17 utility's service territory on a complimentary basis by
159+18 each utility, with no Assessment fee charged to the public
160+19 schools for the Assessments. Nothing in this Section is
161+20 intended to prohibit the utility from recovering through
162+21 rates approved by the Commission the utility's prudent and
163+22 reasonable costs of complying with this Section.
164+23 (10) Utilities shall make efforts to prioritize the
165+24 completion of Public Schools Carbon-Free Assessments for
166+25 the following school districts by December 31, 2022: East
167+26 St. Louis School District 189, Harvey School District 152,
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