City Water, Light & Power

City Water, Light & Power

Type	Public Utility
Industry	Electric & Water Utility
Founded	January 2, 1911[1]
Headquarters	Springfield, Illinois, United States
Area served	Springfield, Illinois Metropolitan Area
Key people	vacant (General Manager) Eric Hobbie (Chief Utilities Engineer) Thomas M. Skelly (Water Division Director)[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.