NEARLY 7 MILLION TONS of coal mined annually.

1,600 MEGAWATTS
of power.

PROVIDING
2.5 MILLION
families with electricity every day.

$785
MILLION
in economic activity contributed annually.

$1 BILLION
invested in the Best Available Control Technology (BACT).

Powerful Performance

Coal-fueled electricity with less emissions.

Power Plant

Prairie State Energy Campus consists of two supercritical units with an output capacity of 800 MW each.
The plant design incorporates state-of-the-art emissions control technologies that make it one of the cleanest coal-fuled power plants in the county. Click here for an interactive animated tour of Prairie State technologies.
The power plant will consume approximately 6.5 million tons of indigenous coal per year from the adjacent mine.