How does the Taylorville Energy Center deliver a secondary benefit of reducing the amount of CO2 across Illinois?
The fact that the TEC will capture more than 50% of the CO2 it produces represents only part of the story. There will be a further reduction in CO2 emissions in other parts of Illinois because of the Taylorville facility. This secondary benefit will result because the power generated at Taylorville will replace electricity that would otherwise be generated by older plants, primarily in the Chicago area, which emit more CO2 for each unit of energy produced than Taylorville will emit. The net reduction of CO2 produced in Illinois is expected to be more than 1.9 million tons/year.
