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Amends the Illinois Power Agency Act and the Public Utilities Act. Provides that "agrivoltaic system" means a ground-mounted photovoltaic solar energy system that meets the following criteria: (1) the applicable farm plan and the system have been intentionally designed with agricultural producers, agrivoltaics experts, or both agricultural producers and agrivoltaics experts; (2) the system is constructed, installed, and operated to achieve an integrated and simultaneous production of both solar energy and current or future marketable agricultural products, including all products and activities described in the definition of "production agriculture" in the Use Tax Act and apiaries if the apiary is paired with another qualifying marketable agricultural product, by an agricultural producer; (3) the agricultural production of the system occur on land beneath or between rows of solar panels; and (4) the agricultural production of the system begins as soon as agronomically feasible and optimal for the agricultural producer after the commercial operation date of the solar panels and continues until decommissioning. Provides that "agrivoltaic system" does not include a system that has a pollinator habitat as the sole dual use of the system.
Introduced
Jan 27, 2026
Last Action
Mar 13, 2026
Session
IL 104th
Sponsors
1 primary · 6 co
Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As March 27, 2026
Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Terri Bryant
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Napoleon Harris, III
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Patrick J. Joyce
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Rachel Ventura
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Graciela Guzmán
Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Doris Turner
Assigned to Energy and Public Utilities
Filed with Secretary by Sen. David Koehler
Referred to Assignments
First Reading
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Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As March 27, 2026
David Koehler