Republican state Rep. Paul Jacobs spoke about the GOP's new energy package aimed at making changes to the Clean Energy Jobs Act. | Paul Jacobs/Facebook
Republican state Rep. Paul Jacobs spoke about the GOP's new energy package aimed at making changes to the Clean Energy Jobs Act. | Paul Jacobs/Facebook
Republican state Rep. Paul Jacobs spoke about the GOP's new energy package aimed at making changes to the Clean Energy Jobs Act in an Aug. 10 news release.
“Our warnings about blackouts and brownouts and the threat to the grid by arbitrarily imposing closure dates on our coal-fired power and natural gas power plants fell on deaf ears, and Governor Pritzker signed off on the legislation with no regard for the impact it would have on Southern Illinois,” Jacobs said in the release.
Jacobs signed on to a comprehensive package of legislation centered on energy in Illinois that would help nuclear power plant operators and owners by streamlining the bureaucratic process and helping Southern Illinois' residents with increases in fees.
The legislation package, House Bills 5780, would start a task force to "study the effect of state laws, including CEJA, on energy prices as well as grid reliability," eliminate the 20,145 mandated closures of nuclear power plants and cut out bureaucracy in the nuclear power plant industry.
Jacobs was elected to the Illinois House in 2020. His legislative background contains service on the Tourism Committee and Higher Education.
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