Midwest Core > Illinois

Resources Market Infrastructure Policy

Resources: A measure of total energy production and consumption per capita

Market: The cost of consumption, measured in electricity prices and gasoline taxes

Infrastructure: Capacity to generate and refine energy sources; miles of pipelines

16th Resources
15th Market
10th Infrastructure

A central location and well-developed infrastructure make Illinois a key transportation hub for crude oil and natural gas moving throughout North America. The state features more than a dozen interstate natural gas pipelines, two natural gas market centers, several petroleum and petroleum product pipelines and an oil port.

Illinois has fossil fuel resources that include substantial coal reserves under nearly two-thirds of the state and modest crude oil reserves in the southern half of the state.

state-illinois

Production trillion btu

52
Oil
2
Gas
1095
Coal
26
Wind
1.05
Solar
0
Hydro
175
Biofuel
1010
Nuclear

net energy Production trillion btu

-1,948
+2,361 Produced
4,309 Consumed

Consumption trillion btu

1170
Oil
937
Gas
969
Coal
223
Renewable
1010
Nuclear

Gasoline Tax total state + federal, 2014

IL
$0.49
USA
$0.46

Key Policies

  • Requires that all investor-owned electric utilities and retail electricity suppliers obtain 25% of their retail sales from renewable resources by 2026.

  • Requires the use of reformulated gasoline with ethanol in the area around Chicago and in the southwest corner of the state near St. Louis, Missouri.

  • Requires permits and compliance bonds for drilling oil and gas wells. Permit fees are $100. Bonds begin at $1,500 a well and increase for deeper wells.

Electricity net production, trillion btu

+446
6.88¢
IL
8.81¢
USA