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The amount of wind power — the state’s biggest source of renewable energy — took a surprising 6% dip from the previous year, while natural gas-generated electricity had a 43% jump in 2023, government data show. A pressure system in Canada — the same weather pattern that helped spur wildfires up north, filling Chicago skies with smoke last summer — was a big reason wind power was down in 2023. The shifting wind direction affected how much wind powered all those nearly 300-foot turbines dotting the Illinois countryside. ....
Illinois policy says wind and solar are supposed to replace coal plants that are closing, but that didn’t happen in 2023. Another fossil fuel, natural gas, filled the void instead. ....
Wind and solar are supposed to replace coal plants that are closing, but that didn’t happen in 2023. Another fossil fuel, natural gas, filled the void. ....
Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) has built a number of natural gas-fired electric generating plants here in the Marcellus/Utica region. The most recent CPV gas-fired plant to go online in our area was a 1,050-megawatt plant in Cambria County, PA (see CPV Marcellus-Fired Electric Plant in Cambria Goes Online Early). CPV just announced they've secured financing ....
In August 2020, MDN brought you the news that Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) wanted to build a state-of-the-art 1,250-megawatt natural-gas-fueled, combined-cycle electric generation facility in Grundy County, Illinois (see CPV Gets Funding, Begins Building Big M-U-Fired Power Plant in IL). Three Rivers Energy Center, which would cost $1.2 billion to build, would sell its power ....