Exelon Plans to Close Two Uneconomic Illinois Nuclear Stations This Fall

SUGAR LAND--August 4, 2021--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The $1 trillion bipartisan draft infrastructure bill wending its way through Congress contains about $6 billion to support economically struggling nuclear power plants, but it's not enough, and not in time, to save two economically challenged nuclear plants in Illinois -- the Byron Nuclear Power Station and the Dresden Nuclear Power Station -- from closing in September and November, respectively, according to Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC) (Chicago, Illinois).

Within this article: Status of legislation aimed at saving the Byron and Dresden nuclear power stations