Illinois Representative Will Davis (D-Hazel Crest) has announced the Path to 100 Act, a bill that would increase the state's RPS and also address energy storage

The bill aims to move Illinois to 100% "clean" energy (this would include resources not defined as renewable under the RPS, ostensibly other carbon-free resources)

The bill will be introduced in the next few days; legislative language was not yet available.

According to a news release, key items of the bill are:

• Expand Illinois’ Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) from its current requirement of 25% renewable energy by 2025 to 40% renewables by 2030.

• Ensure sufficient funding exists to fully implement the Illinois RPS. "Under current law, Illinois is falling significantly short of its renewable mandate – currently generating less than 7% of our power from renewables despite requirements for 16% in 2020," the release stated

• Drive procurement of an estimated 6,000 MW of new utility scale solar, 6,500 MW of new wind power, 7,500 MW of new residential, commercial and community scale solar.

• Identify opportunities to pair energy storage with renewable energy development and create a statewide study to eliminate barriers for energy storage.

A fact sheet on the bill also highlighted the legislation as:

• Removing technical barriers to renewable energy and storage deployment

• Improving interconnection process

• Stabilizing transition from net metering to rooftop solar rebates

• Clarifying credit value for community solar

• Enhancing contract certainty for utility-scale wind and solar

• Identifying opportunities to pair energy storage with renewable development with storage study and path to forward-looking policy

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