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Exelon Wants in on FutureGen
CHICAGO (AP) -- One of the nation's largest power generators plans to join the FutureGen Alliance, an organization developing an experimental clean-coal power plant in eastern Illinois.

Chicago-based Exelon Corp. says it wants to help build the plant near Mattoon.

Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin made the announcement Saturday in Chicago.

Quinn says the partnership brings critical support.

The Department of Energy should decide next month whether to build the plant. The agency had said the developers need to find a way to cut costs and to bring in more partners.

Exelon CEO John Rowe says coal plays an important role in the nation's energy supply and it's important to find ways to cut emissions.

The plant would use coal while removing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.

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