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Prairie State Energy Campus shows energy = jobs!Click here for a printable version of this information. By Tom Wolf, Executive Director,
Illinois Chamber of Commerce
Energy Council Blog
December 18th, 2009
Illinois is a big state. Sometimes people in the Chicago area forget that there is a lot of land and a lot of people south of Interstate 80. One project under the radar that shouldn’t be is the on-going construction of the Prairie State Energy Campus southeast of St. Louis in Washington County– specifically the 1,600 MW, $4 billion coal-fueled power plant and adjacent coal mine. This powerpoint presentation showcases the construction of the plant , the jobs it’s creating during construction and will create when operating and the environmental advances being made.
One fun fact — because the plant is able to use Illinois coal from a mine next to the plant, it’s saving 200,000 tons of CO2 emmissions because it’s not shipping coal from Wyoming. Another fun fact — this is the largest power plant construction project in the country right now. Imagine what Illinois’ unemployment rate would be if this project wasn’t being built! Click here to visit the Illinois Chamber of Commerce Energy Council Blog. |
Prairie State Energy Campus
