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My power company sends me regular emails about my energy bill and I think this latest one might be trying to slutshame me.

"You wouldn't use so much electricity if you didn't have so many 'overnight guests', you nasty boy" friend if you're jealous of my high-power-use swag you can just say so. That's right, my oven has me drowning in overnight guests. They throw themselves at me when they see my electric blanket. You can't imagine the overnight guests I get with central heating.

#commonwealth edison #bitches love power strips #and spending the night

Chicago & Illinois Midland (C&IM) "mine job" at the Commonwealth Edison Kincaid Generating Station

The EMD RS1325 locomotive was one of only two ever built; it has been preserved at the Monticello Railway Museum.

Sicily, Illinois

October 26, 1990

Photo by David Fasules

A democratically owned electric utility could fast-track the city’s transition to clean energy.

Excerpt from this In These Times/EcoWatch story:

Among the many vendors at the Logan Square Farmers Market on Aug. 18 sat three young people peddling neither organic vegetables, gourmet cheese nor handmade crafts. Instead, they offered liberation from capitalism.

Representatives of the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America (CDSA) engaged marketgoers in discussions about the campaigns they are involved in, from lifting the ban on rent control to establishing single-payer healthcare. But one effort in particular seemed to catch the most attention.

"We're trying to bring ComEd under municipal control," CDSA member Matthew Cason told Patrick Petranek, a Logan Square resident whose eyes lit up at the prospect of Chicago's largest electricity provider, Commonwealth Edison, being taken over by the city. Petranek said he supports more transparency around fees and signed a petition in support of the campaign.

ComEd's franchise agreement with Chicago is up for renegotiation at the end of 2020. The agreement, established in 1947, allows ComEd to access the city's public areas to build electric infrastructure — and form a practical monopoly over Chicago's electricity.

"Electric power is a critical function in everyday life, and we can't go without it," Cason told In These Times. "Yet, it's controlled by a private monopoly, and that private monopoly is minimally accountable, not transparent and just is outside of our public control."

Cason argues that a democratically controlled utility would help Chicago reach its goal of 100-percent clean and renewable energy by 2035, which City Council set in April. If the city — not a profit-driven corporation— is responsible for sourcing its own energy, Cason says, it will make decisions to satisfy its residents instead of investors.

CDSA launched its #DemocratizeComEd campaign in June, part of a wave of municipalization efforts heating up across the country. DSA and other grassroots organizations are mounting campaigns from San Francisco to Maine. In July, after a heat wave forced two power shutdowns in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio floated the idea of taking over ConEd, the city's investor-owned electric utility.

In late July, Chicago alderman and CDSA member Daniel La Spata introduced a City Council order calling for a feasibility study to examine the potential impacts — environmental, social and economic — of bringing ComEd under public control. Cason expects the proposal to easily pass through the Committee on Environmental Protection and Energy, after which it would be up for review by the whole Council. The study, due to come out in December if authorized, would then outline paths to municipalization.

#Chicago #Commonwealth Edison #electrical grid

If approved by state regulators, ComEd customers will pay an average of $17 per month more for delivery charges by 2027, the utility said.

Excerpt from this Chicago Tribune story:

ComEd filed for a four-year, $1.47 billion rate increase Tuesday with the Illinois Commerce Commission to bolster its grid for the demands of EVs, electrification and climate change.

If approved by state regulators, ComEd customers will pay an average of $17 per month more for delivery charges by 2027, the utility said. The ICC will review the rate and grid plans and is expected to issue a decision by December.

ComEd said the proposed rate increase is necessary to meet the state’s clean energy goals, despite a potentially unfavorable political climate of its own making.

The $1.47 billion request would spread the cost over four years, with the average residential monthly bill increasing by $6.72 in 2024; $5.73 in 2025; and $6.20 in 2026. ComEd projects monthly bills would decrease by $1.67 in the fourth year of the plan, bringing the total increase to about $17 per month by 2027.

Last year, ComEd filed for a proposed $199 million increase in electricity delivery charges, its largest rate hike since 2014. That was approved by the ICC in December and projected to add about $2.20 per month to the average residential customer bill this year.

The latest rate increase request is part of the state’s Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, a clean energy bill requiring Illinois utilities to get 40% of their power from renewable sources by 2030. ComEd’s grid improvement plan includes connecting to a projected fivefold increase in rooftop and community solar systems, and meeting the demands of widespread electric vehicle adoption.

Michelle Blaise, ComEd’s senior vice president of technical services, said the existing grid “wasn’t designed” to handle the two-way flow of power into the grid from distributed energy resources such as home rooftop solar installations, and needs to be upgraded as the technology gains wider use.

Likewise, the adoption of electric vehicles could dramatically increase electricity demand on the grid.

#Commonwealth Edison #electric utility rates #climate change #electric vehicles #power grid

Do you know if Commonwealth Edison has any link to TBMC in Illinois?

It’s suspected they were involved in radiation experiments.

#answers to questions #Commonwealth Edison #document dump

Sometimes, utility companies, or for that matter, many business enterprises, can “do good.” This video tells us how Commonwealth Edison, the intensely-disliked local electricity utility in the Chicago area and most of Illinois, takes the tree and bush cuttings when it trims trees around its power lines, to Brookfield Zoo, located in suburban Chicago, to feed many of the animals.

The story from You Tube:

After more than 150 truck deliveries consisting of over 2,100 cubic yards, the collaborative browse program between the Chicago Zoological Society (CZS), which manages Brookfield Zoo, and ComEd, one of the zoo’s sponsors, is still going strong.

The browse program, which began six years ago, has been advantageous for both organizations. Rather than mulching the browse—leaves, twigs, and branches from trees—the electric company delivers it to the zoo for the animals. In turn, the animals greatly benefit from the nutritional value and enrichment the browse provides.

As a part of its ongoing reliability program, ComEd trims trees along its high-voltage distribution circuits on a four-year cycle. The company trims approximately 9,000 miles of tree line each year. Additionally, ComEd performs targeted tree trimming between regularly scheduled maintenance to enhance reliability on sections that have higher incidences of outages caused by trees.

#Brookfield Zoo #Commonwealth Edison #tree cuttings