Coles Together is a non-profit economic development organization for
Coles County
Coles County is a County (United States), county in Illinois. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 46,863. Its county seat is Charleston, Illinois, Charleston, which is also the home of Eastern Illinois Universit ...
, Illinois. It was founded in 1988 by a partnership between the public and private sectors to provide full-time economic development support for new and existing industry in Coles County.
Coles Together provides the industrial sector with resources and services needed to locate or expand a development within the community. This includes marketing, finance, and project packaging.
The organization actively pursued and was selected as the host site for
FutureGen
FutureGen was a project to demonstrate carbon capture and storage, capture and sequestration of waste carbon dioxide from a coal-fired electrical generating station. The project (renamed FutureGen 2.0) was retrofitting a shuttered coal-fired powe ...
, a public-private partnership to build the world's first near-zero-emissions coal-based power plant in
Mattoon, Illinois. The plant would have been the first near-zero-emissions coal-fired power plant built in the United States.
The president of Coles Together is Angela Griffin.
In 2009, the America's Power Factuality Tour interviewed Angela Griffin to report on FutureGen's potential impact on the local economy and its role in generating electricity in the United States.
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External links
Coles Togethe
website
References
Organizations based in Illinois