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Municipalities that own the Prairie State coal-fired plant in Washington County, near Marissa in St. Clair County, may have some decisions to make. New regulations could force southern IL power ...
Gov. J.B. Pritzker vows Illinois will help stop — and even reverse — climate change with a new state law that outlaws coal- and gas-fired electricity by 2045. But the law fails to address the ...
The power plant rule marks the first time the federal government has restricted carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal-fired power plants. The rule also would force future electric plants ...
A 2021 Illinois law requires PSEC plus one other municipally-owned coal power station to reduce their carbon emissions by 45% by 2035 and become carbon-free by 2045. Other coal and oil-fired power stations in Illinois over 25 MWe must become carbon-free by 2030, and natural gas plants by 2045. [18] [19]
In August 2015, President Obama and his administration passed legislation to cut emissions from coal power plants. The goal of this legislation is to become more dependent on clean energy such as wind and solar power. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set a benchmark of reducing CO 2 emissions by 32% by 2030 from their 2005 levels.
Illinois electricity production by type This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Illinois , sorted by type and name. In 2022, Illinois had a total summer capacity of 44,163 MW and a net generation of 185,223 GWh through all of its power plants. [ 2 ]
Already home to more nuclear power plants than any state in the nation, Illinois is on the verge of lifting a nearly four-decade-old ban on building reactors as the state transitions from coal and ...
CHICAGO — Shunning climate-changing fossil fuels is turning out to be more difficult than promised in Illinois. Two weeks after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law billed as the nation’s most ...