(Springfield, IL) — Governor Rauner and Exelon are agreeing on a consumer-financed bailout plan that will keep two of the company’s nuclear plants open. After negotiations last night and this morning, the “Chicago Tribune” reports Exelon dropped much of its ambitious original plan and agreed to a proposal which would cap how much rates could rise in the next decade to pay for the two-point-four-billion-dollar bailout. Governor Rauner has said his goal was to retain the jobs at the nuclear plants Exelon was threatening to shut down, but the plan still needs the approval of an increasingly contentious General Assembly.
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David Stewart/sks IL) STL)
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