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Power plant · Coal Retired

Capacity: Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Oct 30, 2026Open licenseMW

Commissioned: 1958
Net generation, 2011: 2,399,908 MWh
Grid: 138 kV to Commonwealth Edison Co (PJM)
Location: Cook County, Illinois
Operated by: Midwest Generations EME LLC

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2001 to 2012

Fuel burned MMBtu by year, 2001 to 2012

Gas
Coal
Oil

Operations detail

Details

Who’s behind it

Owner: Edison International

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Technology: Coal source: “Conventional Steam Coal”
Age: 68 years since 1958

All 3 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory

Attributes
Attribute	Value
Gem	Parents Name NRG Energy Inc Share pct 100 Gem entity id E100000001262 Unit ids G100000101825, G100000101826 Location id L100000103855
EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP)	EPA FRS ID 110000434717 NAICS code 221112 Subpart PP (CO2 supply) No Subpart RR (geologic sequestration) No Subpart UU (CO2 injection) No Reporting year 2023 GHGRP facility ID 1001518
Balancing authority code	PJM

Retirement

Retired: August 2012
First unit retired: March 2005
Capacity retired: 805 MW
Generators retired: 14

Generators that retired or are scheduled to retire
Generator	Technology	Nameplate	State	Date
311	Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine	17.3 MW	Retired	March 2005
312	Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine	17.3 MW	Retired	March 2005
313	Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine	17.3 MW	Retired	March 2005
314	Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine	17.3 MW	Retired	March 2005
321	Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine	17.3 MW	Retired	March 2005
322	Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine	17.3 MW	Retired	March 2005
323	Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine	17.3 MW	Retired	March 2005
324	Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine	17.3 MW	Retired	March 2005
331	Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine	17.3 MW	Retired	March 2005
332	Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine	17.3 MW	Retired	March 2005
333	Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine	17.3 MW	Retired	March 2005
334	Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine	17.3 MW	Retired	March 2005
7	Conventional Steam Coal	239.3 MW	Retired	August 2012
8	Conventional Steam Coal	358.1 MW	Retired	August 2012

By technology

Nameplate capacity retired or scheduled to retire, by technology
Technology	Retired	Scheduled to retire
Conventional Steam Coal	597.4 MW
Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine	207.6 MW

Grid

Grid voltage at the plant: 138 kV
Transmission or distribution system owner: Commonwealth Edison Co
Balancing authority: PJM Interconnection, LLC
NERC region: RFC

Transmission lines within 15 mi (10)

138 kV line 120598 138 kV · 0.2 mi
138 kV line 106089 138 kV · 0.2 mi
Goodings Grove 345 kV line 345 kV · 0.2 mi
138 kV line 128271 138 kV · 2.9 mi
138 kV line 117149 138 kV · 2.9 mi
138 kV line 131489 138 kV · 3.4 mi
138 kV line 127808 138 kV · 3.4 mi
138 kV line 162826 138 kV · 3.4 mi
138 kV line 135355 138 kV · 3.5 mi
138 kV line 143099 138 kV · 3.6 mi

Can the connection be reused?

A plant that retires usually leaves its substation, transmission connection and interconnection agreement behind, and those may be reusable by a new project at the same site. FERC Order No. 845 lets an interconnection customer use surplus interconnection service at an existing site, and some transmission providers' tariffs let a replacement resource take over a retiring unit's interconnection service, usually within a set time after the retirement. Whether any such right still exists here, who holds it and on what terms depends on the owner, the transmission provider and timing; this page does not establish any of that.

Ownership

2 companies

Companies with an ownership or operating interest in this asset.
Company	Role	Share	As of	Source
Midwest Generations EME LLC	Operator			EIA-860M
EDISON INTERNATIONAL	Owner	100.0%	Dec 31, 2023	EPA GHGRP

Timeline

Aug 2012 Stated Units 7, 8 scheduled to retire, 597.4 MW · EIA-860M
Mar 2005 Stated Units 311, 312, 313, 314, 321, 322, 323, 324, 331, 332, 333, 334 scheduled to retire, 207.6 MW · EIA-860M
1958 In service · EIA-860M

Sources

6 sources

Sources EIA-860M · GEM · LBNL · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)

Sources

EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
GEMOpen license, with credit · retrieved Oct 26, 2026Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
LBNLOpen license, with credit · retrieved Nov 9, 2026Yin, Nait Belaid & Heleno (2026), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, OEDI, CC BY 4.0: A Harmonized Geospatial Dataset of U.S. Transmission Lines: Linking FERC Form 1 and HIFLD, 1994-2024. Modified by Inframation: HIFLD-side fields only, names re-cased, coordinates rounded.
EIAOpen license · retrieved Nov 1, 2026Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)

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Sources EIA-860M · EPA ICIS-Air · FAA OE/AAA · EPA ICIS-NPDES

Sources

EIA-860MOpen license · retrieved Nov 4, 2026
EPA ICIS-AirOpen license · retrieved Nov 8, 2026
FAA OE/AAAOpen license · retrieved Nov 9, 2026
EPA ICIS-NPDESOpen license · retrieved Nov 8, 2026

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