NIMPA has joined with several other Midwest joint action agencies and rural electric cooperatives to develop, construct and operate the Prairie State Energy Campus. The site will include two 790 MW supercritical coal-fired generating units in Washington County, Illinois. In addition, the project includes on-site coal reserves and coal mine that will provide fuel to the generating units. The first unit is expected to be completed by August 2011 and the second by June 2012. Prairie State will provide approximately 120 MW of low-cost electricity to NIMPA’s members.

Prairie State’s use of state-of-the-art emission control technologies will make it among the cleanest major coal plants east of the Mississippi River. Its emissions will be dramatically better than the averages for U.S. coal plants and even proposed emission limits into the future. In fact, Prairie State’s advanced technology will reduce sulfur dioxide emissions to less than one-fifth of the national average emissions for existing coal-fired plants.

Using an innovative application of technologies including nitrogen oxide controls, selective catalytic reduction systems, dry electrostatic precipitators, sulfur dioxide scrubbers and wet electrostatic precipitators, Prairie State is among a new generation of coal-fired power plants designed to provide low-cost energy while achieving the nation’s environmental goals.

For additional information about the Prairie State Energy Campus, visit www.PrairieStateEnergyCampus.com.