About Midwest Generation
Midwest Generation operates six electric power generating plants in Illinois and supervises operation of the Edison Mission Energy Homer City Generation plant in Homer City, Pennsylvania. The Midwest Generation and Homer City plants are coal-fired merchant plants, producing power that is not committed to be sold under long-term contracts. Most of these plants’ output is sold into the PJM Interconnection, LLC, commonly referred to as the PJM marketplace (Pennsylvania-Jersey-Maryland), a 13-state region which extends from the Atlantic coast westward to Illinois
Midwest Generation is a subsidiary of Edison Mission Group, a holding company that acts through numerous subsidiaries to manage the competitive power generation business and other unregulated subsidiaries of Edison International.
| Plant Name | City, State | Generating Capacity |
|---|---|---|
| Crawford | Chicago, Illinois | 532 MW |
| Fisk | Chicago, Illinois | 326 MW with 214 MW peaking |
| Homer City* | Homer City, PA | 1,884 MW |
| Joliet | Joliet, Illinois | 1,334 MW |
| Powerton | Pekin, Illinois | 1,538 MW |
| Waukegan | Waukegan, Illinois | 789 MW with 118 MW peaking |
| Will County | Romeoville, Illinois | 1,092 MW |
| * Midwest Generation supervises the operation of the Edison Mission Energy Homer City Generation plant. | ||
Leadership
As a national leader in reducing mercury emissions, Midwest Generation was one of the first U.S. power companies to install mercury emission controls, pioneering the development of a mercury removal process called Activated Carbon Injection.
We invested $200 million in new pollution controls for our Fisk and Crawford plants in Chicago soon after we acquired them in 1999. Our ongoing focus on improving these plants resulted in reducing emissions of mercury by 90 percent, putting us in compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency's ruling five years before the 2015 deadline. In addition to this steep reduction in mercury, nitrogen oxides have been reduced by 60 percent and sulfur dioxide by 30 percent.
Midwest Generation is four years into implementing a 10-year plan mandated by the State of Illinois to further reduce emissions. These are some of the toughest regulations for existing coal-fired power plants in any state in the country. The company has begun installing additional controls to further reduce nitrogen oxide emissions. We will achieve a total reduction of 70% from 1999, putting us in compliance with EPA’s rules one year ahead of schedule. Additional controls to further reduce sulfur dioxide emissions will follow and will reduce those emissions by nearly 80 percent from 1999 levels by 2018.
One of Midwest Generation's Illinois plants – in downstate Pekin – is hosting an Electric Power Research Institute project to explore the technical and economic feasibility of capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions from an existing plant. Another plant in Joliet has studied the feasibility of burning biomass pellets along with coal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Positive Impact in the Community
Midwest Generation is a good corporate citizen that provides jobs and supports local businesses. Additionally, since 1999, we've provided local communities with over $1 million through grants and donations to schools and nonprofits.
Our employees are actively committed to giving back to the community through donations of approximately $400,000 annually to local charities and through active volunteerism with community groups and public schools.
