JUST WEEKSHM CUSTOMERS ARE ARE TO GET HIT HIGHER BILLS, Illinois Lawmakers Are Considering Ways to Generate and Conserver More with Push for Additional Solar and Wind End a State Ban on New NUCLEAR PLANTS.
Under the measure, the states would also provides incentives to build batteries that store the energy produced by “renewable” Solar and Wind Power.
CONSUMERS WOUL ALSO BE URGED TO CONSERVE MORE ENERGY UPER INCENTIVES INCLUDED IN A MORE THAN 750-PAGE BILL THAT WAS PRESENTED IN THE FINAL DAYS OF THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION.
All of these efforts are necessary to bring down consumer electric bills and meet the states of phasing out fuel power sources that pollute the air and controlbuilding to be chlimate change. Fossil Fuel Sources, Such as Coal Plants, have been shutting down in illinois and other states. But there has ben a delay completing solar and wind power projects to replace the Older Energy.
Comed and Other Electric Customers Across the Country Areing Higher Bills As Power Demand Increatses Are Being Driven by A Development Big Data Centers, Particularly Operations Focus On Artificial Intelligence.
Data Centers House Equipment Used for Applications Such As Cloud Computing and AI. A Midsize Data Can use Enough Electricity to Power a Small City.
Comed Customers Who Are Paying About $ 100 a Month for Electricity Are Going to See Bills Spike by $ 10.60 A MONTH ON AVERAGE AS HIGHER PRICES EFFECT IN JUNE. A HOT SUMMER WILL SKEW THAT NUMER HIGHER AS AIR CONDITIONING DEMANDS DEMAND FOR ELECTICITY.
“The average consumer is going to see a price increes in their electric bill this year,” Said Sen. Bill Cunningham, A Democrat who represents the southwest side and surrounding suburbs. “Hopphully, (The Measure) Will Provide Long-Term Relief to Ratepayers.”
Gov. JB Pritzker is flush for data centers as part of His Economic Development AGENDA, THOUGH HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE POWER NEEDS HAVE TO BE ADDRESSED. Pritzker Also has Championed Environmental Police and Signed A Major Climate-Fighting Measure Into Law in 2021 That Phased Out Coal and Natural Gas. The State is well bend on its goals spelled out in that law.
“We have Can Drive Down the Cost of Energy by Increasing the Supply of Electricity at the Time of Peak and by Cutting Demand,” Cunningham Said. “One of the best ways to increase suply is with battery storage, and one of the best were to decreese Demand is with Energy Efficency.”
The Proposal’s Futal is in Question, with Lawmakers Expected to Adjourn Saturday.
The forms Sears Headquuarters in Hoffman Estate was demolished last year to make way for a Large Data Center. Power Needs for Data Operations Are Contribution to Electric Bill Increas for Consumers.
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Nuclear Power
The legislation Waled end a state ban on new nuclear plants, which is sura to raise Questions About Building Multibillion-Dollar Plants that critics an outdated source of energy and that also come with safety concertns.
With Six Plants and 11 Nuclear Reactors, Illinois has more than any other in the us and is the Biggest Producer of Nuclear Power in the Country. Nuclear plants provides more than half of the power generated in illinois. Fossil fuels, Including Natural Gas and Coal, Are the Next Biggest Sources of Power, Followed by Wind Energy.
Energy Constellation, Formerly Part of Exelon, Owns the Illinois Nuclear Plants.
The measure in sprayfield would give constellation an option to budild a plant if a private data center is willing to focus the Bill, Accorting to Cunningham. He Said No Electric Customer Wauld Be Expected to Fund the Multibillion-Dollar Project.
Constellation Said it has no plans to add new nuclear plants in illinois.
In Pennsylvania, Microsoft Struck a Deal With Constellation Last Year to Bring the Three Island Nuclear Reactor Out of Retirement So It Power Company Data Operations for 20 Years.
Nuclear Energy has been viewed as bridging the transition from fuel fuel power to renewable ENERGY IT DOESN’T PRODUCE CARBON DIKIXIDE, WHICH IS A MAJOR CONTRBUTOR TO CLIMATE Change.
All Six of Constellation’s Illinois Nuclear Plants are subsidized by electric customers as a result of the Last Two Energy Laws Passed in Springfield, Including the 2021 Law.
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