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The Midwest POWERS UP Eight consumer-owned utility agencies are collaborating to provide customers in nine states with low-cost electricity BY ALICE CLAMP A new powerhousefiguratively.in the is rising Midwest—literally and The powerhouse is the Prairie State Energy Campus, a 1,600-megawatt coalfired plant using supercritical technology. And it’s also the eight consumer-owned entities—six municipal joint action agencies and two co-op generation and transmission organizations—that will build and operate the plant. The joint action agencies are American Municipal Power-Ohio, Illinois Municipal Electric Agency, Indiana Municipal Power Agency, Kentucky Municipal Power Agency, Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission and Northern Illinois Municipal Power Agency. The cooperatives are Prairie Power, Inc. and Southern Illinois Power Cooperative. There’s a ninth participant: Peabody Energy. The Prairie State project is being built in southern Illinois, at Lively Grove. It will provide electricity to customers in nine states—Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia. “This plant is the biggest public power undertaking in the country,” said Dave Clark, general manager of Kentucky Municipal Power Agency and general manager of Paducah Power System. “We have a common goal, a common vision.” Prairie State Project Participants Shares Northern Illinois Municipal Agency 7.60 % 120 MW Peabody – Lively Grove Energy Partners 5.06 % 80 MW Kentucky Municipal Power Agency 7.82 % 124 MW AMP-Ohio 23.26 % 368 MW Southern Illinois Power Cooperative 7.90 % 125 MW 100 % 1,582 MW Prairie Power, Inc. 8.22 % 130 MW Illinois Municipal Electric Agency 15.17 % 240 MW Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission 12.33 % 195 MW Indiana Municipal Power Agency 12.6 % 200 MW 16 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2008 PUBLIC POWER Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Public Power - January/February 2008Public Power - January/February 2008ContentsPerspective10 QuestionsThe Midwest Powers UpRTOs & RenewablesGot Coal? 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