Articles About coal

• Glen Helen seeks power plant demolition

  By Cheryl DurgansJune 9, 2021

  

  The News takes a closer look at the Glen Helen Association’s plans to demolish a now-shuttered power plant site and restore the area, the plant’s history and the current state of the former plant.

• No-coal choice saved money

  By Megan BachmanMay 17, 2012

  The Village’s decision five years ago against investing in a 1,600-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Illinois may have spared its electric customers from decades of high utility bills.

• Plug pulled on power plant

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 3, 2009

  The Village made what some would call a wise and prescient decision last year when it declined to sign on to the coal-fired power plant American Municipal Power, Inc. planned to build along the Ohio River. AMP announced last week on Nov. 25 that it was terminating the AMPGS project due to a spike in construction cost estimates that rendered the project unaffordable for its customers.