Midwest
Commentary: How Prairie State puts small towns at risk
All across the Midwest, communities manacled to Prairie State Energy Campus are seeing their electricity rates go through the roof.
Midwest
Commentary: Prairie State deal deserves to be investigated
The residents, small businesses, and city officials of communities that invested in the Prairie State Energy Campus deserve to know whether they were sold a faulty product.
Midwest
As SEC investigates, towns weigh legal options on Prairie State contracts
Towns obligated to buy power from and cover costs of the trouble-plagued southern Illinois coal plant continue to lose millions of dollars on the deal, and critics say they are not surprised to hear the SEC is investigating.
Midwest
Report: Prairie State coal plant power costs nearly double
Power costs from a controversial Illinois coal plant are soaring, creating a major financial burden for towns and utilities that invested in the project, according to a new report released Wednesday.
Midwest
Prairie State reverses course on Illinois coal ash site
In 2005, the president of the Prairie State Generating Company told officials in Washington County, Illinois, that coal ash from a new 1,600 MW power plant would be stored elsewhere. That was then, this is now.