Illinois

26-28% by 2025

Relative to 2005 levels

"Environmental justice communities" are the 25% highest scoring census block groups based on factors including environmental hazards, income, race, health, and other environmental and socioeconomic criteria used by the U.S. EPA's EJScreen; communities are also able to request self-designation as an EJ community.

Illinois EPA EJ Start

At least 25% of Illinois Solar for All funding must be allocated to projects within EJ communities.

At least 45% of transportation electrification funding must be directed to environmental justice communities.

Illinois EPA – EJ Coordinator

Illinois EPA – Office of Environmental Justice

Commission on Environmental Justice

Justice40 Oversight Committee

Energy Transition Workforce Commission

Illinois Finance Authority Climate Bank and the Clean Energy Jobs and Justice Fund

100% zero-carbon power by 2045 | 100% clean energy by 2050

Renewable Energy Access Plan

The State Policy Opportunity Tracker (SPOT) breaks clean energy policies down into “components”, which are binary questions to evaluate policy quality. Higher quality policies have more of their SPOT components fulfilled.

The State Policy Opportunity Tracker (SPOT) breaks clean energy policies down into “components”, which are binary questions to evaluate policy quality. Higher quality policies have more of their SPOT components fulfilled.

Illinois has an active community choice aggregation program.

The Illinois Climate and Equitable Jobs Act directed the Illinois Commerce Commision (ICC) to establish storage procurement targets for all utilities serving >200,000 customers by 2022. However, the ICC decided not to establish any procurement targets, stating "establishing targets does not appear to be a reasonable policy to pursue at this state in the process" in its 2022 report to the Governor and General Assembly.

Illinois received a B grade from Freeing the Grid.

The statewide energy code for residential construction is 2021 IECC with amendments.

The statewide energy code for commercial building construction is 2021 IECC with amendments.

The Illinois Capital Development Board approved the Illinois Residential Stretch Code on April 9, 2024. The Code will be available for municipalities to adopt by October 31, 2024.

Electric utilities are required to achieve cumulative persisting annual savings of 21.5% by 2030 for utilities serving more than 3,000,000 retail customers, and cumulative persisting annual savings of 16% by 2030 for utilities serving between 500,000 and 3,000,000 retail customers. Savings are relative to average consumption over 2014-2016.

Gas utilities are required to achieve annual energy savings of 1.5% each year.

Illinois has enacted commercial PACE-enabling legislation and has active programs.

The Illinois Electric Vehicle (EV) Rebate Program offers rebates for new and used EVs: up to $4,000 for all-electric vehicles and $1,500 for all-electric motorcycles.

Requires the state to develop and implement a program for the procurement of zero emissions vehicles for the state fleet

Requires that new residential buildings with designated parking spaces have EV charging capabilities; each residential unit with a designated parking spot is required to have at least one parking space that is EV-capable.

Illinois is ranked 15th out of 50 in the 2022 Bicycle Friendly State rankings by the League of American Bicyclists.

The Sustainable Agriculture Grants Program provides grants to implement conservation practices that reduce soil loss and improve soil health.

The Cover Crop Premium Discount Program offers premium discounts to promote additional acres of cover crops that are not covered by other state and federal program incentives.