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IL Supreme Court declines to answer whether state can tell utilities where to buy electricity

By Dan Churney | Monday, May 23, 2016 @ 3:31pm

The Illinois Supreme Court has shied away from ruling on a question brought by a group of electricity suppliers, who had asked the court to limit the power of the Illinois Commerce Commission to dictate from whom the suppliers must buy their electricity, ruling the question became moot when a largescale coal power plant project folded for lack of funds.