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Naperville’s Long Term Energy Options

On Monday, July 28, the City of Naperville is hosting a workshop to review and discuss various priorities, key considerations and strategies for our city’s long term energy options.

The workshop is open to the public.

The Mayor, City Council and key members of the City Leadership team will receive presentations from:

  • Consultants Townsend, Pruitt and CES
  • Naperville Environment and Sustainability Task Force
  • The Public Utilities Advisory Board

We encourage you to attend so that your voice is heard.

NEST has requested that the city employ a process that engages with residents, promotes freedom of choice and flexibility, and prioritizes fiscal responsibility in the city’s energy procurement process.

No final action can be taken at the workshop.  The City Council will vote on the IMEA extension at the August 19 City Council Meeting.

Monday July 28 at 6:00PM
Council Chambers
400 S. Eagle Street

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This City Is Funding One of America’s Dirtiest Coal Plants

We need to speak up now. It doesn’t matter if you are in Naperville, Detroit, or the Solomon Islands, this issue affects all of us. This issue will not affect the people who make it, rather it will affect young people. We are abetting some of the worst carbon pollution in Illinois, and it is time to take a stand.

Share this video to everyone you can, we need to make a change NOW.

Directors: Adi Julka, Adithya Karthik

Editor: Adi Julka

Researchers: Adi Julka, Adithya Kathrik

Narrators: Adi Julka, Adithya Karthik

Sources:
– https://coal.sierraclub.org/deadly-impact-of-coal-pollution
– https://images.app.goo.gl/yKW4CfW8qoHgcLR98
– https://www.utilitydive.com/news/renewables-cheaper-energy-than-99-percent-of-us-coal-plants-just-energy-transition/642393/
– https://www.sierraclub.org/illinois/blog/2023/02/prairie-state-makes-list-deadliest-coal-plants
– https://prairierivers.org/uncategorized/2021/07/prairie-state-coal-plant-debunked/
– https://prairierivers.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Prairie-State-Replacement-Cost-Fact-Check-1.pdf
– https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/26/prairie-state-coal-plant/
– https://rmi.org/insight/transition-opportunities-for-prairie-state-energy-campus/, https://naperville.granicus.com/player/clip/1695?view_id=4&redirect=true
– https://utilitytransitionhub.rmi.org/economic-dispatch/

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Come to the Naperville City Council meeting on July 15 at 7:00PM and wear red!

Fossil fuel interests are following their well practiced playbook of spreading half-truths and cherry-picking data to garner support for extending the IMEA contract all the way until 2055. Our Council members are hearing from these pro-fossil fuel voices and we anticipate that they will be showing up to the City Council meeting this coming Tuesday, July 15. We need to make sure that Council knows that those of us who support a responsible transition to clean energy and who oppose the irresponsible commitment to a coal-heavy contract that extends 30 years in the future are the strong majority of Naperville residents.

If you want to make a public comment, the deadline is 6:30PM Tuesday.  You can sign up here:

https://www.naperville.il.us/government/board-and-commissions/city-council-meetings-and-workshops/city-council-speaker-sign-up/speaker

RSVP here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-C3WYgMVwW5KdUHJpge2mc2h4J8tdacH4TquG3jiGUnv_tA/viewform

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Naperville Could Have Saved $300M with Wholesale Power Over IMEA

MythReality
If Naperville bought electricity from the market over the last 10 years it would have been significantly more expensive than our current provider, IMEA.Wholesale market prices have been lower than IMEA every year except one over the last 10 years. Naperville would have saved over $300 million during the last ten years if it had purchased wholesale power from PJM.

IMEA’s prices are higher than expected when the contract was signed because the project to build their Prairie State coal plant was billions of dollars over budget.

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Naperville’s Coal-Powered Reality: EPA Permits Don’t Mean Pollution-Free

MythReality
Coal does not cause environmental damage because they operate with a permit from EPA.Burning coal is one of the most efficient ways to put greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere. Annually, the two coal plants that Naperville’s electricity provider, IMEA, co-owns create over 36 billion pounds of greenhouse gases.

Those emissions contribute to the climate crisis. Clean coal electricity is a misleading marketing term because burning coal always generates pollution.

78% of Naperville’s electricity comes from burning coal.