Clean-coal power supporters blame ComEd for defeat
Technically, measure still hangs by thread in legislature
By TIM LANDIS, THE STATE JOURNAL REGISTER

June 2, 2008 – TAYLORVILLE — A $2.5 billion clean-coal power plant proposed near Taylorville is on indefinite hold after a last-minute legislative defeat.

Supporters of the Taylorville Energy Center — a coal-gasification project that has promised hundreds of construction and permanent jobs — on Monday accused Chicago-based Commonwealth Edison of making an all-out effort to kill the project in favor of nuclear power.

A ComEd executive said it was a matter of protecting ratepayers from the undetermined cost of unproven, clean-coal technology.

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