Well, well, well. An IEEFA report about Bowling Green’s electric rate increase was presented to Council
Monday night. [Sentinel Tribune, July 8, page 1]
And guess what?
If the Prairie State coal plant continues to underperform, here is what we will be paying from 2012 to
2021:
1. average ratepayers: $1,870 more for getting energy from Prairie State rather than from other sources

2. average commercial customer: $7,800 more
3. average industrial customer: $566,000 more
4. BGSU: $17.6 million more
How horrifying it must have been for Council members to learn that such a shocking burden is being put on
their constituents, whose interests Council is supposed to represent.
Will Council act? Will they ask DeWine to just check to see if Peabody Energy or American Municipal Power
might have misrepresented the original contract to BG in some way? So that maybe Peabody Energy will
have to pay for Prairie State’s problems? Instead of making Bowling Green pay?
Only the Shadow knows.
Sally Medbourn Mott
Bowling Green