HB5610 - Powering Up Illinois Act

• Creates the Powering Up Illinois Act requiring electrical corporations operating in Illinois to upgrade electrical distribution systems to meet state decarbonization standards and goals for 1,000,000 electric vehicles by 2030.

• Illinois Commerce Commission must establish within 180 days: reasonable average and maximum target energization time periods for connecting new customers and upgrading service for existing customers, annual reporting requirements tracking utility performance, and procedures for customers to report energization delays.

• Requires electrical corporations to establish dedicated electrification teams as single points of contact for customers, maintain adequate qualified staffing with apprentice pipelines, and conduct annual distribution planning considering federal/state air quality standards, housing/economic development plans, and electrification forecasts across multiple time horizons and scenarios.

• Mandates utilities consider flexible interconnection solutions like automated load management and distributed energy resources to defer or mitigate grid upgrades before pursuing traditional system upgrades in site evaluation and design processes.

• Allows electrical corporations to recover costs for electrification infrastructure investments and requires Commission to use incentives or penalties to ensure utilities meet established energization targets; effective immediately upon passage.