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"CEJA in short was an audacious bid by a governor with presidential ambitions to boast the nation’s most progressive clean-energy statute. Now, CEJA’s mandates appear overly inflexible in light of legitimate concerns about whether enough power will be available during heat waves and cold snaps, especially once more of the many planned data centers — intensely power-hungry facilities — are built in Illinois."
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Springfield and Pritzker are the reason for our electricity woes. They will solve nothing.
My neighbor just yesterday approached me about the “flickering” that we’ve had these last few months. NEVER had that in all our years of living in Illinois. We are on the precipice of something big. And another one, have a look at all the powerplants that we’ve lost in the last 20+ years in Illinois and state line Indiana. Those plants were built when this country had 190ish million people in this country. Now were a country of 330 million, plugged in to the max. Not sure how that math works?
Communist/Democrats make living as it used to be, very uncomfortable. They don’t care, they can afford anything they impose upon the taxpaying surfs
Bring back reliable Coal and Natural gas power plants
Can’t build those windmills fast enough to keep up with the demand ? Aren’t solar panels helping ?? I thought they were the miracle cure for all our energy woes !.
So JB the Hutt and the rest of political animal climate clerics killed off cheap, reliable energy production in Illinois and they’re surprised that costs went up? Who knew? All of us. Even the clerics did. This is why they tried to ban the incandescent light bulb in favor of curly-que fluorescent bulbs and LEDs. It wasn’t conservation that motivated them. The clerics figured that prices would go up as they forced a switch to intermittent and expensive energy production. Barry Soetero even said so in an interview. Barry and the rest of the leftists knew that the proverbial pitchforks… Read more »
If you review ‘Dreams from my Real Father’, you’ll quickly realize Barry’s motives (inspired by his radical perverted father) were to essentially tear down America bit by bit and replace it with a Maduro – Venezuela marxist fiasco where the lights don’t work most days.
Springfield caused it, you think they want to fix it.
The people, with the help of the Illinois media, cheered for Pritzker’s so called clean initiatives. The people liked it so much they even re-elected Pritzker for round two of his bad policies. Now comes the finger pointing at the utilities, the grid operators and no telling who else when the fault lies with Pritzker’s initiatives and the people that elected him. Welcome to another day in Illinois
Yup, no one in IL can save IL from Pritzker and the Democrats with their woke public union mobs. That’s why it’s upto the Federal Gov’t to set things right in IL. The DOJ, DOE need to get involved – Pritzker and the woke Democrats can’t be allowed to damage the grid with their green ideology based on junk science.
You never hear a word out of the Political Class about the plight of taxpayer, working class, middle class, etc. NEVER! It’s fascinating how “trained” how Illinoisans are to just take-it-and-like-it. When you read that 25% of Cook County is considered functionally illiterate, add in 40%(?) filled with apathy, you see how Illinois has gotten to this state. There is no oppositional voice to be heard at this clown show. We are truly a Kakistocracy.
Had to look up “kakistocracy.” I quickly added it to my vocabulary. Great use of the word.
Does this excessive cost have anything to do with Mike Madigan?
Remand CEJA – it was based on junk science at best. And for gosh sakes, do NOT let Pritzker and Democrats mess with the Nat Gas supply!