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Prairie State and Bechtel announce new fixed cost EPC Agreement

To help keep energy costs low for millions of customers, Prairie State Generating Company, LLC and Bechtel Power Corporation today finalized a revised engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement that will provide a fixed price for the total cost of constructing the power plant at the Prairie State Energy Campus. (READ MORE)

Prairie State coal plant coming right along

Construction of a state-of-the-art coal fueled power plant near Marissa continues to operate on schedule, with the project more than half complete. (READ MORE)

Why we still need King Coal

The Union of Concerned Scientists is now on the record that the $4 billion Prairie State Energy Campus is a huge gamble. …It will also be state of the art, expected to produce less than half the average emissions of coal-fired plants and showing that Illinois coal can be used without trashing the environment. (READ MORE)

Area Businesses are Getting a Boost from Workers Building Prairie State Energy Campus

LIVELY GROVE - At 9 a.m., the phones start ringing at Waller's Market in Lively Grove with lunch orders from workers at the Prairie State Energy Campus under construction just a few miles away. (READ MORE)

New Study Finds Cleaner Coal Projects Can Create Thousands of New Jobs and Economic Opportunities in Illinois

Job growth from cleaner coal projects range from 13,000 to 20,000 per year, plus millions of dollars in direct and indirect economic effects on the Illinois economy - A clean coal portfolio in Illinois will create thousands of new jobs in the coming years and send a positive ripple effect throughout the Illinois economy, according to a new study released by the Illinois Chamber Foundation today. (READ MORE)

A beacon of hope in Southern Illinois

Marissa, Ill. -Driving south on Illinois Route 4 through the flat farm fields of Southern Illinois, then turning east on Route 15, one of the first things a person notices on the horizon about 12 miles away is a stack jutting nearly 700 feet into the sky. The Prairie State Energy Campus' stack is taller than the tallest skyscrapers in St. Louis, about 50 miles to the northwest. It is 70 feet higher than the Gateway Arch. (READ MORE)