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The Exelon bailout bill is back from the dead and bigger than ever. Crain’s is warning everyone to hold onto their wallets.

• In 2015, Illinois generated 41 percent more electricity than we need, even as power demand shrunk 3.8 percent since 2011

• Sierra Club and NRDC have joined forces with coal-plant operator Dynegy and nuke-plant and ComEd owner Exelon for a monster bill to bailout both unneeded nukes and unneeded coal plants

• The energy bill would subsidize unnecessary nukes, meaning Illinois ratepayers will effectively be paying more so ratepayers in other states who use our surplus power will pay less

• “…that’s just another incentive for commercial and industrial consumers – and employers – to jump the border”

Social services have been devastated, the state is now two years without a budget, but Exelon would have you believe our top legislative priority is passing a $16 BILLION RATE HIKE for a company that just announced quarterly PROFITS of $841 MILLION to prop up power plants that cannot compete in the Illinois energy market. 

 

JUST SAY NO TO THE EXELON BAILOUT

 

BEST Coalition is a 501C4 nonprofit group of dozens of business, consumer and government groups, as well as large and small businesses. Visit www.noexelonbailout.com.