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City Water, Light & Power

City Water, Light & Power
Public Utility
Industry Electric & Water Utility
Founded January 2, 1911 (1911-01-02)
Headquarters Springfield, Illinois, United States
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)
Revenue US$6,526,986.94 (2010)
Owner City of Springfield
Number of employees
643
Divisions Electric Division, Water Division, Lake Springfield
Website www.cwlp.com

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.



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