Illinois Ratepayer Funded Energy Efficiency
Effective 1998, the Supplemental Low-Income Energy
Assistance Fund was authorized through electric
utility restructuring legislation. The law directed gas and
electric utilities (participation by municipal utilities and electric
cooperatives is optional) to assess a monthly charge of $0.40 per
month on each residential electric service account and $0.40 per
month on residential gas service accounts, plus higher amounts for
commercial and industrial accounts. The utilities collect the charges
from customers (about $76 million yearly), and deposit them into
a state fund, which the General Assembly then appropriates yearly
to the state Department of Public Aid, the LIHEAP and weatherization
grantee. About 80 percent of the fund, $61 million annually, goes
for low-income bill payment assistance, and 10 percent, about $7.6
million annually, supplements the state's weatherization program.
See electric utility restructuring
legislation.
Note: Leveraging reports do not always give a complete statewide picture. Some resources are not reported through leveraging or are under reported.
LEVERAGING
2010: $4 million
2009: $9.1 million
2007: $5.3 million
2006: $5.9 million
2005: $4.8 million
2004: $7.2 million
2002: $7.2 million
2001: $6.9 million
2000: $7.6 million
1999: $6.9 million