HB5660 Summary

• Amends the Illinois Power Agency Act to expand the definition of "clean coal facility" to include electric generating facilities that use synthetic gas from municipal solid waste gasification or fuel from pyrolysis of municipal solid waste.

• Specifies that synthetic gas can be created by gasification of municipal solid waste, including non-recycled plastics from municipal solid waste facilities.

• Specifies that fuel produced by pyrolysis of organic or waste material from municipal solid waste facilities qualifies as a clean coal facility.

• Takes effect immediately upon becoming law.