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MidAmerican's five coal plants make it the single biggest carbon polluter in the state, the groups said. Image: Emma Colman, Sierra Club.

Iowa utility urged to put renewables and batteries over coal in long-term plans

November 24, 2022
MidAmerican’s plan to continue burning coal at five Iowa power plants environmentally harmful, more costly than low-carbon alternatives.
The shift represents a break with Illinois' historic past, as pictured in a 1915 book, 'Coal mining in Illinois'. Image: Internet Archive Book Images via Flickr (Public Domain).

Illinois ‘Coal to Solar’ transition scheme awards grants for 255MW of battery storage

June 9, 2022
Companies building battery energy storage facilities at former coal power plant sites in Illinois will get US$280.5 million in grants.
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Vistra says ‘extraordinary leadership’ enabling Illinois’ transition away from coal

September 16, 2021
Vistra Energy has welcomed the enactment of clean energy policies in Illinois which the power generation company said will support 300MW of solar and 150MW of battery storage to be built at nine of its coal plant sites. 
Fisk Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant in Chicago, Illinois which closed in 2012. Economic reasons are already sending other coal plants in the same direction, but the new legislation seeks to ensure a just and responsible transition to clean energy. Image: wikimedia user Theodore Kloba.

Illinois gets 100% clean energy policy, including ‘Coal to Solar and Storage’ funding

September 15, 2021
The Senate of Illinois has passed legislation that will commit the US state to reaching 50% renewables by 2040 and 100% carbon-free electricity by 2045.
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Wisconsin utilities plan 250MW solar project with 75MW of battery storage

March 23, 2021
Two subsidiaries of Wisconsin-based electric and gas company WEC Energy Group have put forward plans for their second large-scale solar-plus-storage project in as many months.
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Solar-plus-storage already a compelling economic proposition for coal-retiring Midwestern US states

February 22, 2021
There has been growing uptake in battery energy storage in Midwestern US states that have traditionally depended on burning coal for electricity, with some “very big projects planned,” an analyst has said.
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Ameren to develop 30MW of solar-plus-storage in rural Missouri

September 3, 2019
Ameren Missouri is planning three grid-scale solar facilities with energy storage, reportedly marking the first ever instance of an energy company in the US Mid-West state powering its customers’ homes with batteries.
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Iowa’s first large-scale PV-plus-storage project installed at university, uses flow battery

January 9, 2019
Iowa’s Maharishi University of Management has completed and powered up a new solar power plant featuring both single-axis tracking and vanadium redox flow battery energy storage.

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