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The Future of Buildings in Illinois Is Electric
The Illinois Commerce Commission authorized a study of the most affordable way for the state to meet its building decarbonization goals. The report has fundamental flaws but critical insights.
Illinois’s landmarkClimate and Equitable Jobs Act(CEJA) sets the goal of 100 percent clean energy across the state by 2050. For nonelectric sources of emissions and transportation—such as the 17 percent of emissions that occur when we burn gas to heat our homes and other buildings where we live, work, and play—CEJA provides little direction on how these sectors are expected to align with the state’s climate goals.
The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC), which regulates the state’s electric and gas utilities, showed real leadership in 2023 when it found that “if the decarbonization goals…
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