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Pritzker unveils energy plan amid session’s final stretch
Several energy overhaul proposals have been in the works since 2019
By JERRY NOWICKI
Capitol News Illinois
SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker’s office unveiled a 900-page energy overhaul bill Wednesday, accelerating a yearslong negotiating process which advocates hope will end in a comprehensive clean energy platform as the session nears its final month.
The stated goal of the bill is to drive Illinois to 100 percent “clean” energy by 2050. That, Deputy Gov. Christian Mitchell said in an interview Wednesday, would include nuclear power as a major contributor. Another goal is to bring Illinois to 40 percent of its utility scale energy being produced by renewables, such as wind and solar, by 2030. Right now, that number is around 8 percent.
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Members of a state Senate committee sharply criticized a recent audit of Exelon’s nuclear power plant operations that suggested ratepayers may need to subsidize two of those plants by as much as $350 million over the next five years.
Gov. JB Pritzker’s office and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency commissioned the audit last year, at a cost of $208,000, after Exelon announced in August that it plans to shutter its Byron and Dresden power plants later in 2021.
The audit, by the consulting firm Synapse Energy Economics Inc., was released in redacted form on IEPA’s website Aug. 14.
Members of a state Senate committee sharply criticized a recent audit of Exelon’s nuclear power plant operations that suggested ratepayers may need to subsidize two of those plants by as much as $350 million over the next five years.
Gov. JB Pritzker’s office and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency commissioned the audit last year, at a cost of $208,000, after Exelon announced in August that it plans to shutter its Byron and Dresden power plants later in 2021.
The audit, by the consulting firm Synapse Energy Economics Inc., was released in redacted form on IEPA’s website Aug. 14.
But Sen. Michael Hastings, D-Frankfort, who chairs the Energy and Public Utilities Committee, criticized many of the redactions and insisted lawmakers be given complete copies of the report.