Why do WE care about the F.I.B.'s war on carbon-fueled electricity?
Because in about five years, Illinois will be sucking electricity out of Wisconsin.
...New York state’s tax policy is exiling millionaires to Florida. California’s craziness is banishing billionaires.
But Illinois has them beat with its climate change laws that are forcing two-thirds of an electric plant in Elwood to take the advice of Suzy Bogguss and drive South with the one they love.
Reddy Kilowatt packed its power plant and headed for Texas, which welcomes gas-powered electric plants. The company that owns two-thirds of that plant is hauling away the equipment that will generate 900 megawatts of power for Texans....
Estimates are that in five years, Illinois will be in need of that 900 MW. Since a Chicago utility owns Wisconsin Electric, and since WE is part of MISO, which directs electricity to places in need.....
Oh, well. There is some good news here.
Dairyland Power of LaCrosse bought the remaining one-third of the generating capacity of the plant. But they will sell the power only to DOWNSTATE Illinois. So it won't go to Chicago.
BTW, do you share our suspicion that the town in question was named for one of the Blues Brothers??
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