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Five questions every gas and electric customer should ask when reading their bills

…a rate hike? If the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) granted your utility a rate hike, the increase will be reflected in higher rates on the delivery side of the bill. The two biggest delivery charges are the monthly customer charge and a per-kilowatt-hour or per-therm distribution charge. Is my meter being read? Some utilities may skip meter readings and estimate…

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New electric rates for ComEd and Ameren customers in 2024

…rates in 2024? CUB dived into the tariffs and here’s what we found. These rates reflect the delivery rate hikes that Ameren and ComEd received on Jan. 1. Ameren: Meter Charge: $4.84/month (formerly $5.22/month) Note: Covers meter-related services, such as installing, maintaining and testing meter equipment. Monthly Customer Charge: $6.33/month (formerly $5.57/month) Note: Helps cover the utility’s administrative costs of…

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Reading Your Meter

PDF version of this fact sheet Your meter measures the amount of energy—electricity or gas—you use each month, so the utility can bill you. For decades, meter readers with the utility company had to visit homes to take readings. Today, a utility typically can do remote readings of electric digital smart meters and other meters equipped with automatic meter-reading technology….

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Making A Difference: She said “no one at the utility company was listening”— but CUB did

…They even replaced the meter in 2021—but the high bills persisted. Getting nowhere with the utility, she contacted CUB. CUB helped get a technician to check out Eleanor’s meter. Eleanor says Nicor found a leak and fixed it–but claimed this didn’t have an impact on her previous bills. The next few months her bill was back to normal (about $135)…

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ICC grants Illinois American Water $85M rate hike (CUB helped cut increase by $14M)

…original increase by about $14 million, consumers are still getting hit with an increase during a historically expensive winter in Illinois,” CUB Communications Director Jim Chilsen said. According to a statement from Illinois American Water, the monthly water service bill for the typical residential customer using 3,500 gallons per month with a 5/8-inch meter will increase between $3 and $16…

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Video: Protect yourself from utility disconnections

…A utility CAN disconnect your service if you: Fail to pay an entire past-due bill or security deposit. Default on a payment plan you negotiated with the utility. Deny the utility access to your meter. A utility CANNOT disconnect your service if: The temperature is below 32 degrees or expected to fall below 32 degrees within the next 24-hour period…

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New electric rates for ComEd and Ameren customers in 2023

…$4.76/month) Note: Covers meter-related services, such as installing, maintaining and testing meter equipment. Monthly Customer Charge: $5.57/month (formerly $6.45/month) Note: Helps cover the utility’s administrative costs of doing business, such as billing, postage and customer assistance. EDT Cost Recovery Charge: 0.13375¢/kWh (formerly 0.12484¢/kWh) Note: This charge recovers the Illinois Electricity Distribution Tax and is the same for all customer classes….

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Q&A: What is the QIP surcharge on my gas bill?

…formula in utility tariffs, derived from the 2013 law, to help utilities recover investment costs related to capital projects, such as pipe-replacement, meter relocation and changing the utilities’ pipe networks from low pressure to medium pressure. The percentage can change on a monthly basis. Each year, state regulators hold a review to make sure the QIP revenue for each utility…

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Welcome to the Big Energy Research Center

…Evidence from Advanced Metering Infrastructure Data. Using anonymous electricity usage data captured by Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), this analysis shows that by 2050 higher cooling needs in warmer summers will lead customers of Illinois’ largest electric utility to use 3.9 TWh more electricity than in the base case scenario. Cumulatively, under conservative price projections, customers would pay an additional $10.9…

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New electric rates for ComEd and Ameren customers in 2022

…ComEd’s rates. Ameren: Meter Charge: $4.76/month (formerly $4.66/month) Monthly Customer Charge: $7.51/month (formerly $6.63/month) EDT Cost Recovery Charge: 0.12484¢/kWh (formerly 0.11732¢/kWh) Distribution Delivery Charge Summer: 5.550¢/kWh (formerly 5.274¢/kWh). Distribution Delivery Charge Non-Summer: 3.249¢/kWh for the first 800 kWh used (formerly 3.087¢/kWh) 1.724¢/kWh for usage over 800 kWh (formerly 1.639¢/kWh) ComEd: Standard Metering Charge: $3.40/month (formerly $3.70/month) IL Electricity Distribution Charge:…

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