This summer CUB found consumers in different parts of Illinois paying an electricity supply rate with Clearview Energy that was more than triple what they would have paid with their utilities.
At a utility-bill clinic in Lansing in June, CUB found that Dan was paying Clearview 22.99 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh), compared with ComEd’s price of about 6.9 cents per kWh.
In August, Chelsea of Tolono, contacted CUB (CitizensUtilityBoard.org/Contact) after discovering she was paying 26.49 cents per kWh, compared with Ameren’s rate of about 8.1 cents per kWh.
“I am a working single mom and had to take out a loan to pay the back charges to keep my power on due to the extortion rate being charged,” Chelsea said. “This is wrong on so many levels.”
Chelsea was refunded about $739. Dan didn’t get a refund, but he did drop Clearview. “You helped me save money,” he told CUB. “Keep up the good work.”
