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City Water, Light and Power

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Revenue
  
US$6,526,986.94 (2010)

Owner
  
Springfield

Founded
  
2 January 1911

Type of business
  
Public Utility

Website
  
www.cwlp.com

Headquarters
  
Springfield

Number of employees
  
643

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Industry
  
Electric & Water Utility

Area served
  
Springfield, Illinois Metropolitan Area

Key people
  
vacant (General Manager) Doug Brown (Chief Utilities Engineer) John Davis (Electric Division Manager) Ted Meckes (Water Division Manager)

Divisions
  
Electric Division, Water Division, Lake Springfield

Profiles

City Water, Light & Power is the largest municipally owned utility in the U.S. state of Illinois. The utility provides the city of Springfield, Illinois with electric power from four coal-fired boilers. The boilers operate with water from the utility's wholly owned Lake Springfield, which also provides drinking water for the city. The utility also owns much of the riparian property around Lake Springfield, some of which is preserved for local recreation and some of which is leased to local nonprofits, such as Lincoln Memorial Gardens.

The utility is currently attempting to construct a second reservoir, Hunter Lake.

References

City Water, Light & Power Wikipedia