Illinois Passes Clean Energy Bill

Posted On January 12, 2017
In Energy | Energy Conservation | News

The Illinois legislature passed a sweeping, comprehensive new energy bill, one of the most significant state energy legislation passed in the US in decades. The Future Energy Jobs Bill will include:

  • At least 4.3 gigawatts of new Illinois wind and solar power – as much capacity as two nuclear power plants and two coal plants combined
  • Requirements that Illinois utilities Ameren and ComEd invest $6 billion in energy efficiency over the next decade
  • A new Illinois Solar for All program that will invest up to $400 million in new solar projects in economically disadvantaged communities, and train those most in need of good jobs in the clean energy technologies of the future.

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