Illinois SB 2736: ETHICS-TECH

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
State of Illinois 
2025 and 2026
SB2736

Introduced 10/28/2025, by Sen. Li Arellano, Jr. 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

415 ILCS 5/9.15a new

 Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that, notwithstanding any provision of the Act, any rule adopted under the Act, or any term or condition in any permit issued under the Act, each natural gas-fired peaker power plant in the State may, to the extent allowed by federal law, be operated on up to a continuous basis beginning on the effective date of the amendatory Act and until 30 days after the date upon which the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency first posts on its website a notice that it has determined, based on data supplied to it annually by the Illinois Power Agency, that at least 21,000 MWe of new utility-scale renewable power generation capacity has been brought online in the State. Directs the Environmental Protection Agency to adopt any rules and to amend any existing permits as necessary to implement the provisions added by the amendatory Act. Effective immediately.

LRB104 16111 JDS 29425 b

A BILL FOR

SB2736LRB104 16111 JDS 29425 b

1 AN ACT concerning safety.

2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 

3represented in the General Assembly:

4 Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by 

5adding Section 9.15a as follows:

6 (415 ILCS 5/9.15a new)

7 Sec. 9.15a. Ensured electrical reliability through natural 

8gas-fired peaker power plants. 

9 (a) As used in this Section:

10 "Natural gas-fired peaker power plant" means a natural 

11gas-fired combustion turbine that serves a generator with a 

12nameplate capacity greater than 25 MWe, that produces 

13electricity for sale, and that was operated before the