Promoting Jobs and Economic Opportunity
- Creates Clean Jobs Workforce Hubs, a network of frontline organizations that provide direct and sustained support for minority and disadvantaged communities, including job opportunities.
- Prioritizes companies that implement equity actions to ensure equitable representation in Illinois’ clean energy workforce.
- Creates a Contractor Incubator program that focuses on the development of underserved businesses in the clean energy sector.
Ensuring Illinois Reaches 100% Renewable Energy by 2050
- Builds more than 40 million solar panels and 2,500 wind turbines across Illinois by 2030, generating more than $30 billion in new infrastructure in the state. Taps into the falling cost of wind and solar, lowering costs for consumers.
- Expands Solar for All, and ensures people have access to solar in their community.
- Expands goals for Energy Efficiency, on the electric and gas side, to lower costs.
- Directs utilities to evaluate lower-cost alternatives to infrastructure modernization.
Reducing the Equivalent of 1 Million Gasoline and Diesel-powered Vehicles from the Road
- Empowers local communities to develop Community Energy and Climate Plans, to drive comprehensive local investment in energy, transportation, workforce, and environmental projects.
- Creates a new Beneficial Electrification initiative to incentivize electric vehicle charging, focused on medium- and heavy-duty vehicles that create local health impacts.
- Creates the EV Access for All program, to ensure all Illinois residents can benefit from electric vehicles, and supports the creation of low income electric vehicle car-sharing and “last-mile” electric shuttles to serve transit deserts.
Achieving a Carbon-free Power-sector by 2030
- Directs the Illinois EPA to begin a comprehensive stakeholder process that prioritizes carbon reductions in impacted communities and reduces harmful pollution from power plants to zero by 2030.
- Creates Clean Energy Empowerment Zones to support communities and workers who are economically impacted by the decline of fossil fuel generation.
- Directs the IPA to procure clean energy and capacity resources to achieve customer savings and expand renewables investment.
