2022 Inflation Reduction Act - Illinois Coal Mines and Power Plants

Inflation Reduction Act

The Inflation Reduction Act invests in revitalizing economies of energy communities across the country, by create good-paying, union jobs, and supporting workers in coal, oil and gas, and power plant industries by:

• Reinstating funding for the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, which provides payments and medical treatment to coal miners suffering from breathing and respiratory challenges.
• Authorizes $250 billion in loans through the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office to retool legacy energy infrastructure like transmission lines, refineries and power plants for the net-zero economy.
• Provides a 10% bonus tax credit for wind and solar projects that are developed in places that have seen a coal mine or power plant close or have seen employment losses as a result of contractions in the fossil fuel economy.
• Delivers tax credits for clean energy manufacturing projects that are developed in energy communities where coal mines and power plants have closed with bonus credit for projects creating good-paying union jobs.

The credit amount could be increased by 10% for facilities located in an energy community. An energy community is defined as being a brownfield site; an area which has or had certain amounts of direct employment or local tax revenue related to oil, gas, or coal activities and has an unemployment rate at or above the national average; or a census tract or any adjoining tract in which a coal mine closed after December 31, 1999, or in which a coal-fired electric power plant was retired after December 31, 2009.

Usefull Illinois State Geological Survey Links

Ilmines

• ILMines - GIS map of the outline of mines in the state
• Data used to construct ILMines
  • All known coal mines in Illinois Shapefiles (points and polygons)

• Mine Info Spreadsheet
  Includes opening and closing dates of mines (if known)....disclaimer text?

ISGS map series that includes mined area area information

• County Coal Maps
• Quadrangle Mined-Out area map

Links to individual mines that may qualify for the bonus tax credit.

Mine Index	Coal co	Mine Name	Year-start	Year-end
0877	Consol Energy, Inc.	Rend Lake Mine	1967	2002
0886	MaRyan Mining, LLC	Shay No. 1 Mine	1970	2020
0921	Wabash Mine Holding Company	Wabash Mine	1973	2007
0933	Freeman United Coal Mining Company	Crown II Mine	1974	August 2007
0968	Peabody Midwest Mining	Gateway Mine	1976	2015
0995	Arclar Company	Eagle Valley Mine	1984	2002
0996	Tri County Coal, LLC	Crown III Mine	1981	2013
1001	American Coal Company	Galatia Mine	1983	2017
1002	Freeman Coal Mining Company	Industry Mine	1982	2003
1004	Illinois Fuel Company, LLC	I-1 Surface Mine	1982	2011
1018	Black Beauty Coal Company	Riola Mine	12 April 1996	9 June 2006
1020	Illini Energy Resources	Razorback I Mine	1997	2000
1021	Big Ridge, Inc.	Big Ridge Portal No. 2 Mine	1997	1 February 2002
1022	Black Beauty Mining Company	Wildcat Hills Eagle Valley Mine	1998	2007
1023	Knight Hawk Coal, LLC	Creek Paum Mine	1998	2016
1024	Silver Creek Coal Company	Bear Mine	1999	2000
1026	Black Beauty Coal Company	Vermilion Grove	3 December 2001	2009
1027	S Coal Company	Cambria No. 1 Mine	2001	2004
1028	Big Ridge, Inc.	Willow Lake Mine	2002	17 November 2012
1029	Nubay Mining, LLC	Liberty Mine	2002	2006
1032	American Coal Company	New Future Portal Mine	2000	2017
1035	Illinois Fuel Company, LLC	I-1 Underground Mine	2003	2003
1036	Knight Hawk Coal, LLC	Prairie Eagle Surface Mine	2005	2014
1037	S Coal Company	Elkville Mine	2004	2009
1038	Peabody Midwest Mining	Wildcat Hills Underground Mine	2006	2019
1040	White County Coal, LLC	Pattiki II	2002	2016
1042	Knight Hawk Coal, LLC	Royal Falcon Mine	2007	2009
1044	Peabody Midwest Mining	Wildcat Hills Cottage Grove Mine	2000	2019
1045	Knight Hawk Coal, LLC	Prairie Eagle South Underground Mine	2009	2013
1046	Black Nugget, LLC	North Grindstone	2009	2012