The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune
Illinois’ clean energy law, meant to decarbonize the state’s power generation industry, has a loophole so large you could drive a flatbed truck through it.
We wrote a little over a week ago about how one power-plant owner has reacted to Illinois’ heavy-handed Climate & Equitable Jobs Act, or CEJA, by literally extracting six turbines from a large natural gas-fired plant in Will County and transporting them — by, yes, flatbed trucks — to Texas, where they will continue to run and support growing electricity demand in that state.
That facility, Elwood Energy, is the largest gas-fired “peaking” plant in northern Illinois (and perhaps the country). It was required under CEJA to be shuttered by 2030. Facing that deadline, the previous owner last year sold the facility in two pieces….read more.
State Representative Chris Miller has been warning about the green energy scam that is driving costs up for families and businesses. He wants to see CEJA completely repealed.
“Pritzker quickly jumped on the environmental bandwagon to support the “Green New Scam” and now Illinois has less reliable energy and increased prices,” said Miller. “CEJA has destroyed reliable and affordable energy in Illinois and should be thrown in the trash,” said Miller.
Pritzker signs CRGA energy bill, costing consumers billions in higher energy rates. Governor JB Pritzker signed a controversial battery storage and energy omnibus bill into law last Thursday. Senate Bill 25, also known as CRGA, is another example of flawed green energy policies that Illinois ratepayers are already all too familiar with.
Illinois families and businesses need affordable, reliable energy. Democrats’ new energy law will only raise rates on hardworking Illinoisans who are already struggling with high power bills.