Public Utility Definition

An entity that owns, controls, operates, or manages a facility that supplies electricity to the public exclusively to charge all-electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are not defined as a public utility. An entity that supplies compressed natural gas to fuel natural gas vehicles is also not defined as a public utility.

(Reference 220 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/3-105 and 20 Illinois Compiled Statutes 627/10)