CPV Brings 1,200 MW M-U-Fired Power Plant Online in Northern IL

In August 2020, MDN brought you the news that Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) wanted to build a state-of-the-art 1,250-megawatt natural-gas-fueled, combined-cycle electric generation facility in Grundy County, Illinois (see CPV Gets Funding, Begins Building Big M-U-Fired Power Plant in IL). Three Rivers Energy Center, which would cost $1.2 billion to build, would sell its power into the PJM market--enough to meet the demand of up to 1.25 million homes and businesses serving Northern Illinois, including Chicago. We lost track of progress on the plant until we spotted this terrific news: Three Rivers is now built and has just entered commercial operation!

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