Ribbon Cutting Held At Prairie State

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On March 19, Prairie State Generating Company (PSGC) celebrated an important campus milestone—a ribbon cutting at its Lively Grove North mine facility. Many PSGC Board Members, local officials, legislators, local building trades representatives, and PSGC employees were in attendance. This ribbon cutting marked the completion of a project commissioned back in 2020 to install air ventilation… More
2022 PSGC Scholarship Recipients

2022 PSGC Scholarship Recipients

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Pictured Above (L to R): Jaden Hinnerichs, Alexandria McFadden, Hailey Keys, Abby Sandheinrich, Grace Geralds, and Randy Short (President & CEO) On July 27, Prairie State Generating Company (PSGC) awarded five $1,000 scholarships to children of PSGC employees through its annual scholarship program. The recipients were Grace Geralds, Jaden Hinnerichs, Hailey Keys, Alexandria McFadden, a… More

PSGC Statement on Chicago Tribune/St. Louis Post Dispatch Article

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On January 21, 2021, an article about the Prairie State Generating Company was published in the Chicago Tribune and the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Unfortunately, the article’s content does not fully depict the advanced technologies in place on our energy campus, nor the value that our campus brings to the electric grid or the Illinois economy. We recognize that our nation’s energy supply is i… More
Prairie State Power Plant Celebrates Safety Milestone

Prairie State Power Plant Celebrates Safety Milestone

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Today marks an important safety milestone at Prairie State’s power plant as our team celebrates one year without a recordable or lost time incident. This accounts for over 446,000 hours of work performed with superb safety performance. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) classifies recordable incidents as any work-related injury or illness that requires treatment beyond f… More

Prairie State Selected for DOE Carbon Capture Study

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Prairie State Generating Company (PSGC) is pleased to announce that it has been selected as the site of a $15 million Department of Energy (DOE) project, led by the University of Illinois (U of I), to design a transformational carbon capture system. PSGC is investing $3.75 million in cost-share for the project to produce a “shovel-ready” front-end engineering and design (FEED) study at one … More