The Climate & Equitable Jobs Act (Ceja) in Illinois has created a self-inflicted energy crisis in northern Illinois due to the state's clean energy law, which aims to decarbonize the state’s power generation industry. The law's 2030 closure requirement applies only to facilities owned by privately held companies and exempts plants owned by municipal utilities and nonprofit enterprises. Dairyland Power Cooperative, a power generator based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, has been able to operate gas-fired plants throughout the area at cut-rate prices, allowing Dairyland to operate these power stations until 2045, not 2030. The cooperative is exempt from the 2030 closure requirements for these plants, as Dairyland is a nonprofit, generating power mainly for household and business customers of power distribution cooperatives serving much of the western half of Wisconsin. However, the law also allows for the operation of these plants to support end-use customers outside of Illinois.