Offering Exelon a separate market to sell power in would likely result in higher energy bills, said Todd Maisch, president of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce: “This is yet another subsidy of a business’ assets that are, admittedly by the company, profitable. Those subsidies are going to be paid by all of the other businesses that are struggling to survive in today’s economic atmosphere.”
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.