As the public backlash against data centers escalates across Illinois, newly disclosed records reveal that fees the controversial facilities paid to Commonwealth Edison over the last five years fell billions of dollars short of the total price tag expected to connect them to the electric grid. Public-interest groups warned Thursday…...
The basics on community solar offers in Illinois
This article provides general information on community solar offers–for details on specific offers, please go to SolarInTheCommunity.com, CUB’s community solar resource. If you are not already familiar with community solar, please read our Introduction to Community Solar first. How does a community solar offer work? When you sign up for…...
CUB alerts ComEd customers of new power price: 10.103¢ per kWh
Commonwealth Edison customers will continue to pay elevated electricity prices due to soaring energy demand sparked by new and proposed data centers, CUB said in a consumer alert this week. The consumer group urged ComEd to work with customers struggling to afford their bills and called on the Illinois General…...
CUB Q&A: ComEd’s Time-of-Day (TOD) Pricing program
Commonwealth Edison’s Time-of-Day (TOD) Pricing is an optional program that can save you money when you shift your electricity use to cheaper times of day. (Read a PDF version of this Q&A.) It is similar to ComEd’s Delivery Time-of-Day (Delivery TOD) Pricing) program. However, Delivery TOD only covers the delivery…...
CUB Q&A: Battery + electricity supply offers in Illinois
Interested in installing battery storage at your home? There’s a new type of offer in ComEd territory that aims to make backup home batteries more affordable by bundling them with an alternative retail electric supply (ARES) plan. (Download a printable pdf version of this Q&A.) Right now, there are two…...
‘Very, very grateful”: CUB helps 92-year-old electric and gas customer secure $1,500 refund
Guadalupe, a 92-year-old Waukegan resident, had no idea that attending a CUB event would result in her receiving a $1,500 refund. But that’s exactly what happened when experts from the consumer watchdog discovered Guadalupe was being overcharged by an alternative supplier she had no idea she was paying. In late…...
CUB warning: Beware of bad alternative supplier deals
CUB reminded Ameren Illinois and Commonwealth Edison customers of the utilities’ new summer power prices, and warned customers about getting lured into bad alternative supplier deals. Even in this high-priced environment, the utilities’ supply prices are likely the best bet, the watchdog said. These are the utilities’ new summer supply…...
CUB alerts ComEd customers of new summer power price: 10.399¢ per kWh
Commonwealth Edison customers face a second consecutive summer of high bills, largely due to soaring energy demand sparked by new and proposed data centers, the Citizens Utility Board (CUB) said Thursday. CUB urged ComEd to work with customers struggling to afford their bills this summer and called on the Illinois…...
