Consider natural gas. New pipelines are being built to supply us with much more than Wisconsin needs. Both FERC and WPSC documents make specific reference to the ability of Guardian LLC to service gas-fired power plants that will supposedly meet Wisconsin's needs. But if gas is being brought up from the south to generate electricity, the irony is that there is far more electric generating capacity on the drawing board for Wisconsin than we are likely to consume in-state for many years to come. As California learned the hard way availability is not affordability.
Gas prices are a related problem.
In fact they have every possible financial incentive to wait for the peak demand moments when power can be sold for hundreds of times the normal rate. It happened in California, and it can happen here. Although the regulatory procedure for licensing a plant is less rigorous in Illinois than it is in Wisconsin, local zoning boards have more legal power in Illinois to prevent plant construction than they do here. A massive new system of power lines and grids is also on the drawing board in Wisconsin. It includes the massive Arrowhead power line proposed in northern Wisconsin and the huge new power grid to be constructed in Kenosha by the American Transmission Company.