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About the Prairie State Energy Campus
The Prairie State Energy Campus is a 1,600 MW supercritical electricity generating station and coal mine planned for Lively Grove, Ill. The campus would provide clean, low-cost electricity to residents throughout the Midwest. Prairie State will be among the largest private capital projects planned for Southern Illinois and is expected to begin generating electricity in the 2011 to 2012 timeframe.
The Prairie State Partners Group, a consortium of public power and cooperative entities in the Midwest, owns nearly 95 percent of the Prairie State Energy Campus. Public Power and cooperative utilities serve over 44 million people throughout the United States.
The Prairie State Partners Group consists of American Municipal Power-Ohio (AMP-Ohio); Illinois Municipal Electric Agency (IMEA); Indiana Municipal Power Agency (IMPA); Kentucky Municipal Power Agency (KMPA); Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission (MJMEUC); Northern Illinois Municipal Power Agency (NIMPA); Prairie Power, Inc.; and Southern Illinois Power Cooperative (SIPC).
Prairie State Partners:
American Municipal Power-Ohio (AMP-Ohio):
AMP-Ohio is the Columbus, Ohio based nonprofit wholesale power supplier and services provider for 121 member municipal electric systems - 81 in Ohio, 27 in Pennsylvania, seven in Michigan, four in Virginia and two in West Virginia. Owned and governed by its member communities, the organization is dedicated to providing member assistance and a low-cost power supply. www.amp-ohio.org
Illinois Municipal Electric Agency (IMEA):
IMEA is the wholesale power provider to 31 communities in Illinois. The IMEA's goal is to keep the members' power costs low and to insulate them from the high prices that are increasingly common in the short-term power market. www.imea.org
Indiana Municipal Power Agency (IMPA):
The Indiana Municipal Power Agency is the not-for-profit wholesale power provider to 51 cities and towns across Indiana and one Ohio community who own and operate the municipal electric distribution systems in their communities. IMPA member communities deliver electric service to approximately 300,000 individuals throughout Indiana. www.impa.com
Kentucky Municipal Power Agency (KMPA):
KMPA was formed by Paducah Power System and the Princeton Electric Plant Board for the purpose of purchasing wholesale electricity and providing an economic power supply to their customers.
Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission (MJMEUC):
The Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission is a state-wide Joint Action Agency specifically authorized by state law to operate as an electric utility for the benefit of the combined requirements of the members. Established by six charter members, the Commission has grown to a membership of 56 consumer-owned systems ranging in size from 700 to 87,000 meters. These municipal and cooperative electric systems serve 347,000 retail customers, and have a combined peak load of over 2100 MW. www.mpua.org/about/MJMEUC.asp
Northern Illinois Municipal Power Agency (NIMPA):
NIMPA is a not-for-profit power provider serving Illinois' northern communities, including Batavia, Geneva and Rochelle.
Prairie Power, Inc.
Prairie Power, Inc. is a member-owned, not-for-profit, electric generation and transmission cooperative located in Jacksonville, Illinois. PPI produces, purchases and delivers over 1.5 million megawatt-hours of electricity annually to its 11 member-owned electric distribution cooperatives. PPI's distribution cooperatives provide retail electric service to over 78,300 residential, agricultural, commercial and industrial consumer-members throughout central Illinois. www.ppi.coop
Southern Illinois Power Cooperative (SIPC):
SIPC, located just south of Marion, Illinois is the wholesale power supplier to residents in 24 counties in Southern Illinois.www.siec.org/sipc.html
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