Illinois
Taylorville Energy Center, IL
STATUS: In progress with opposition; Litigation TYPE: Coal OPPOSITION: Sierra Club; other utilities; industry and consumer groups PROSPECTS: Likely BACKGROUND: Christian County Generation, LLC, submitted an application for a permit to construct the Taylorville Energy Center (TEC), a 602 mega-watt … Continue reading
FutureGen, IL
STATUS: In progress with opposition TYPE: Coal OPPOSITION: Sierra Club PROSPECTS: Prolonged delay BACKGROUND: FutureGen was a proposed $2.4 billion coal plant to produce 275 megawatts of electricity and sequester CO2 emissions in deep geologic formations thousands of feet below … Continue reading
EnviroPower’s Franklin County Power Plant, IL
STATUS: Killed TYPE: Coal OPPOSITION: Sierra Club PROSPECTS: Unlikely BACKGROUND: EnviroPower LLC was granted an air discharge permit by Illinois EPA in 2001 for construction of an approximate 600 mega-watt coal plant. EnviroPower was aware the permit required construction to … Continue reading
Indeck Energy Services, IL
STATUS: Killed TYPE: Coal OPPOSITION: Lt. Governor Quinn; American Lung Association; Sierra Club; City of Chicago PROSPECTS: Unlikely BACKGROUND: The $1 billion, 660 mega-watt coal-burning power plant would have been located 55 miles south of Chicago. Indeck received an air … Continue reading
Power Holdings’ Waltonville Coal Project, IL
STATUS: In progress with opposition TYPE: Coal OPPOSITION: Sierra Club; local residents PROSPECTS: Indeterminate BACKGROUND: Power Holdings Company announced its plans to build a coal-to-synthetic natural gas plant near Waltonville, Illinois in 2006. In March 2007, a group of local residents … Continue reading
Peabody Energy’s Prairie State, IL
STATUS: In progress TYPE: Coal OPPOSITION: American Lung Association; Sierra Club PROSPECTS: Likely BACKGROUND: The $4 billion, 1500 mega-watt clean coal plant's status was in limbo for several years due to Sierra Club-financed litigation. Illinois EPA issued a PSD air … Continue reading