§ 5-10

(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date ) Sec. 5-10. Definitions. As used in this Act: "Account holder" or "customer" means the person or entity authorized to access or modify utility account details. "Aggregated usage data" means an aggregation of covered usage data, where all data associated with a qualified building or qualified property, including, but not limited to, data from tenant meters and from owner meters, are combined into one collective data point per utility data type, per time period, and where any unique identifiers or other personal information are removed or dissociated from individual meter data. "Aggregation threshold" means 3 or more unique nonresidential qualified accounts or any combination of 5 or more residential and nonresidential unique qualified accounts of a property or building during the period for which data is requested. "Benchmarking tool" means the ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager web-based tool or any prudent and cost-effective alternative system or tool approved by the Commission should ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager become inoperative or no longer useful to achieving the policy goals of the State of Illinois that (i) enables the periodic entry of a building's energy use data and other descriptive information about a building and (ii) rates a building's energy efficiency against that of comparable buildings nationwide. "Commission" means the Illinois Commerce Commission. "Covered usage data" means electric data collected from one or more utility meters that reflects the quantity and period of utility usage in the building, property, or portion thereof. "Data recipient" means: (1) an owner of the property or building; (2) an owner of a portion of a property with regard to covered usage data only for the utility consumption the owner or the owner's tenants, if any, pay for and consume in the owned portion; (3) a tenant with regard to covered usage data only for the utility consumption the tenant or the tenant's subtenants, if any, pay for and consume in the space leased by the tenant; (4) the board, in the case of a condominium or cooperative ownership of the property or building; or (5) an agent authorized to receive the covered usage data by anyone in paragraphs (1) through (4). "Property" means: (1) a single tax parcel; (2) 2 or more tax parcels held in the cooperative or condominium form of ownership and governed by a single board of managers; or (3) 2 or more colocated tax parcels owned or controlled by the same entity. "Qualified account" means a utility account that serves some or all of a building or property for which covered usage data is requested and that, as affirmed by the data recipient, was not controlled by the data recipient or its subsidiary during the time period for which covered usage data is requested. "Qualified building" means a building that meets the aggregation threshold. "Qualified data recipient" means a data recipient with respect to a qualified property or qualified building. "Qualified property" means a property that meets the aggregation threshold. "Utility" means an entity that is an electric utility with over 500,000 customers in this State and that is a public utility, as defined in Section 3-105 of the Public Utilities Act. "Utility data type" means electric.

Legislative History

(Source: P.A. 104-458, eff. 6-1-26.)