Rauner & Area Officials To Meet To Discuss Exelon Proposal To Protect Clinton, QC Nuclear Plants
Exelon's Clinton nuclear power station, in an undated photo. (Wikimedia Commons)
News-Gazette reporter Tom Kacich talks with Illinois Public Media’s Brian Moline about a meeting set for Thursday between Gov. Bruce Rauner, and area officials to talk about a new plan from Exelon, which it says must be passed into law to prevent it from closing its Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear power plants.
While the Chicago-based company is very profitable overall … Exelon says those two plants are losing millions of dollars each year.
Exelon wants help from the state of Illinois to keep the plants open. A more expensive plan stalled in Springfield last year. Exelon’s new proposal would provide it with $150 million in state assistance.
Links
- Exelon Defers Decision To Close Clinton Plant For One Year
- Exelon: Auctions Didn’t Help Future Of Clinton Plant
- Exelon Nuclear Plants in Illinois Clear Latest Regional Grid Auction
- Legislation To Help Exelon’s Nuclear Power Plants To Be Delayed: House Energy Comm. Chair
- Exelon Threatens Plant Closures
- Low-Carbon Bill Could Help Exelon Plants, Including Clinton
- Utilities Try Again For Legislation To Save Clinton Plant
- Mitchell Launches Petition To Keep Clinton Nuclear Plant Open
- Tom Kacich reports in News-Gazette on upcoming meeting w/ Gov. Rauner on Exelon
- Exelon news release on "early retirement" of Clinton & Quad Cities nuclear plants