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ELPC News: Gov. Blagojevich Announces RPS Plan

Dear Daniel Stafford,

Great news! Last Thursday, in his State of the State speech, Illinois Governor Blagojevich announced a renewable energy development plan that will make Illinois a national renewable energy leader. The plan calls for 3,000 megawatts of new "green power," mostly wind power, by 2012. This is enough to power one million homes and is expected to create 3,000 construction jobs.

If you go to ELPC's website at www.elpc.org and click on (QuickTime video or MPEG video) in the lead story, you can watch the one-minute excerpt from Governor Blagojevich's speech in which he announces the plan, and you can read ELPC's press release commending Governor Blagojevich on this important announcement.

The Governor will be going to the Illinois Commerce Commission later this week and asking them to move this quickly. He will also try to use state financing authority to support building the largest wind farm in the world, a 432-megawatt project near Bloomington, Illinois.

If implemented, the Governor's plan would make Illinois the second biggest wind power state in the country by 2012. That is a climate change solution and positive alternative in the Midwest coal heartland.

We applaud Governor Blagojevich for this clean energy initiative. Wind power is good for jobs, good for rural economic development and good for the environment. This is a key pro-environmental step that will create good new jobs and spur rural economic development in some of the places in Illinois that need it most.

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