Exelon Won’t Shut Down Two Plants After Ill. Senate Passes Last-Minute Energy Deal – NPR Illinois

Of Illinois’ six nuclear plants — all run by Exelon — five will officially be propped up by ratepayer subsidies approved by the General Assembly.
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Alphabet Soup
4 years ago

extortion plan complete…

mqyl
4 years ago

The IL chumbalones bail out Exelon!

Freddy
4 years ago

Now that the energy bill passed the Senate and awaiting JB’s signature how much will home owners get reimbursed from farmers or the state because of all the corn they grow? https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2016/07/22/corn-sweat-iowa-midwest-heat-wave-evapotranspiration/87442376/ https://www.agriculture.com/got-excessive-perspiration-blame-the-corn-sweats Everyone is asked to conserve energy but how can that be done when corn is planted everywhere and contributes to higher humidity and dew points which keeps A/C and dehumidifiers running 24/7 to try to keep cool. Rochelle had a dewpoint of 126 a while back. Farmers are growing a crop which will eventually be turned into high fructose corn syrup/ethanol/livestock feed and exported but very little… Read more »

debtsor
4 years ago
Reply to  Freddy

Don’t worry, farmers will be the next target of our legislature. It’s only a matter of time before the farms too go bankrupt and we’ll be importing our food entirely from WI and IN.

Fed up neighbor
4 years ago
Reply to  debtsor

Well of course farmers are next they will use eminent domain on them for massive solar farms and windmills. I can see it now welcome to Gatesville!

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