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Prairie State Hosts Summer Blood Drive

On June 18th, Prairie State hosted the first summer blood drive at the mine, with an additional drive held at the power plant on June 26th.  These life-saving events help employees give back to our community.  Over 25% of Prairie State employees regularly donate blood; this is three times greater than the national percentage of eligible Americans who donate. Thanks to all who volunteered or d… More

Meet the Intern: Mooketsi Selelo

Prairie State Generating Company is excited to welcome Mooketsi (Mox) Selelo as a mining intern for the summer of 2018. Selelo, from Botswana, is a graduate of Missouri S&T.  He has a Bachelor’s degree in mining engineering with a minor in mineral processing.  At S&T, he was involved in the competitive mucking team, the mine design team, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and t… More

Meet the Intern: Stephen Richardson

Prairie State Generating Company is pleased to welcome Stephen Richardson as the chemical engineering intern for the summer of 2018. From Belleville, Illinois, Richardson is a chemical engineering major at Iowa State University.  He is involved in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and Chem-E-Car, a group that created a car operated completely on chemical reactions; his team has qual… More

Meet the Intern: Shanthan Mandadi

Prairie State Generating Company is pleased to welcome Shanthan Mandadi as a Coal Combustion Residuals intern for the summer of 2018. Mandadi is from Hyderabad, India.  He just completed his second year in the Master’s Program for mechanical engineering at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (SIU-C).  During his undergraduate studies, he was a member of the American Society of Mechanica… More

Meet the Intern: Benjamin Harvey

Prairie State Generating Company is excited to welcome Benjamin Harvey as an electrical engineering intern for the summer of 2018. Born into a military family, Harvey has lived in many places.  After graduating high school in Riverview, Florida, he moved to Illinois.  He now attends Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville (SIU-E), where he will be going into his junior year as an electri… More