City Water, Light & Power

City Water, Light & Power
Public Utility
Industry Electric & Water Utility
Founded January 2, 1911 (1911-01-02)[1]
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)[2]
Revenue US$6,526,986.94 (2010)[3]
Owner City of Springfield
Number of employees
 643 [4]
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.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7]

Notes

  1. ↑ Pamphlet in Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of CWLP, 1911-2011
  2. ↑ CWLP management
  3. ↑ CWLP Revenue, Treasurer's Filed Annual Report, Combined amount of Water and Electric Enterprise Funds
  4. ↑ Stroisch, Deanna (11 November 2012). "Water chief among many upcoming retirements at CWLP". State Journal-Register. p. 2. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
  5. ↑ About CWLP, City Water, Light & Power, City of Springfield. Retrieved 24 February 2007.
  6. ↑ CWLP Electric Division, City Water, Light & Power, City of Springfield. Retrieved 24 February 2007.
  7. ↑ "City getting impatient for Hunter Lake answer". (Springfield, IL) State Journal-Register. 2009-11-12. Retrieved 2010-02-15.


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