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Illinois Approves Retail Wheeling Trials

Byline: 
Phillip S. Cross
Fortnightly Magazine - June 1 1996
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The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) has OK'd experimental wheeling programs advanced by two of the state's major investor-owned utilities, Illinois Power Co. and Central Illinois Light Co. Both plans focus on large industrial customers, but Central Illinois would also allow direct access for commercial and residential customers over a five-year period in five defined test areas (called "open access sites"). The plans offer unbundled transmission rates based on embedded-cost

tariffs filed at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Each utility anticipates revenues losses (borne by shareholders):

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