According to Sen. Don Harmon’s proposal meant to push ahead a stalled clean-energy solution, little guys will pay more for Illinois’ windmills, as this blog noted yesterday, and as was made clear in this Oct. 24 piece by Steve Daniels in Crain’s Chicago Business:
The [proposed amendment to a 2007 law] outlines a potentially controversial financing mechanism requiring the bulk of the money to be spent on clean-power projects to come from power suppliers serving households and small businesses.
Exelon and other companies that mainly provide electricity to midsized and large commercial customers would get a significant break . . . .
So would wind-farm owners whom the state owes money on their power-purchase contracts “because of unforeseen wrinkles” in the [2007] law.
Harmon wanted to start movement on the matter Nov. 5, but the smaller retailers blocked it, and Harmon responded in a hard-nosed letter, blogged about…
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