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Old Posted Sep 29, 2021, 8:52 PM
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I can't find Chicago-specific stats, but since 70% of Illinois lives in Chicagoland, statewide figures are probably close enough.

Illinois electricity production 2019 (most recent year I could find):

Nuclear (53.6%)
Coal (26.5%)
Natural Gas (11.7%)
Wind (7.9%)
Biomass (0.2%)
Hydroelectric (0.1%)

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...ns_in_Illinois


I believe that Illinois is one of the few states left that still leans so heavily on its old nuclear plants.

Additionally, these figures are from 2 years ago and we've probably had a couple more coal plants converted over to natural gas during that time. And wind plants across the Midwest are always being expanded, so probably a touch more of that now too.
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