The Illinois Power Agency (IPA) announces the Phase I launch of the Illinois Clean Energy Dashboard.
The Clean Energy Dashboard website is designed to track the progress and impact of renewable energy development across Illinois. The Dashboard website also serves as an educational tool for stakeholders and policymakers to quickly answer common questions about the growth of renewable energy in Illinois.
Equipped with charts and graphs, the Dashboard website visually explores Illinois’ evolution in electricity generation, from traditional to renewable energy, compared to its Midwest counterparts. Additionally, the Dashboard website offers visitors a view of the overall growth of renewable energy in Illinois, focusing on equity, bolstering public understanding of how the IPA’s renewable energy programs and procurements support that growth. The Dashboard website further highlights how policies like the Future Energy Jobs Act in 2017 and the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act in 2021 have played a critical role in ramping up renewable energy development in the state.
Some key features of Phase I of the Dashboard website include:
- Static visualizations demonstrating progress and growth across seven different categories of data and information:
- Electricity Generation Mix
- Midwest Solar and Wind Capacity
- IPA Initiatives
- IPA-Supported Competitive Procurements
- Illinois Shines
- Illinois Solar for All
- Equity
- Dedicated webpage where IPA datasets used in the visualizations are available in .xlsx format for download and export
- Frequently asked questions and answers about the Dashboard website
- Data Glossary, which includes a collection of terms and definitions used in datasets and visualizations
The dashboard website will be updated monthly. Phase II of the Illinois Clean Energy Dashboard, which includes dynamic dashboards accessible on desktop and mobile devices, will launch in 2025.