From Crain’s Chicago Business: With smart grid completed, ComEd budgets as if it never happened A new four-year capital plan shows ComEd spending even more per year than it did on its smart grid. That means higher rates, but this … Continue reading
Category Archives: Electric Wires
Somewhere near Union on Sunday, someone had a really bad day. These photos were taken by a Friend of McHenry County Blog out for a bike ride on Hemmingson Road. … Continue reading
Work to prepare utilities for the widening of Route 14 between Crystal Lake and Woodstock started in Woodstock and is working its way to Crystal Lake. Now a big pipeline has made its way from Woodstock to Crystal Lake. … Continue reading
Com Ed is sending tree cutters to many areas in McHenry County during the next three months. That’s what the post card says. Com Ed calls it “vegetation management.” With all the authority cited, one might wonder why State Rep. … Continue reading
The Village of Oakwood Hills is under considered for a site for a gas turbine electric generating plant. Here’s what McHenry County Blog has found: an option running through March of 2014 has been been signed to purchase the property … Continue reading
Com Ed had a power failure last night right in front of our Lakewood home. My son was looking out the front window and saw two explosions. He said looked like fireworks and startled him. After each one, the power … Continue reading
On the heels of Grafton Township Supervisor candidate Marty Waitzman’s comments about electrical needs in the Assessor’s Office comes this response from Grafton Township Supervisor Linda Moore in this memo to Assessor Bill Ottley: Memo: It would be best if … Continue reading
A press release from Grafton Township Supervisor candidate Marty Waitzman: Marty Waitzman – Position Statement on Grafton Township Building ALGONQUIN, IL – I have had many conversations with residents and news reporters who wanted to know whether or not I … Continue reading
Right near the north end of the Virginia Street TIF District (you know the place, just look for the two $16,000 stone monuments) in front of the Crystal Lake Motel, high winds have snapped an electric line maintained by Commonwealth … Continue reading
Got this from the Crystal Lake Police: “A power outage has occurred in the area of Dartmoor and McHenry due to downed trees. “Comed is on scene working to address the problem as we speak. They estimate power restoration at … Continue reading
Who could have known that the Chicago Tribune would take on “Chainsaw Jack” Franks and use “Illinois Chain Saw Massacre” in it’s editorial sub-headline? But there it was. A whole editorial aimed at the overreach, no, that’s too mild a … Continue reading
Looking out the bedroom window this morning, I saw footprints in the snow on the driveway. They went to the back of the house all the way to the electric meter. Besides the primary goal of increasing the cost of … Continue reading
The Campaign for Political Reform has a spreadsheet that shows how much each state legislator has taken from companies like Commonwealth Edison, Ameren and other entities which it thinks has a stake in the so-called “Smart Grid” electricity rate hike … Continue reading
A letter dated Wednesday, August 3, 2011, to the Crystal Lake City Council from Paul Greenlee, who lives on Bennington Drive, expresses concerns Commonwealth Edison service failures in his neighborhood: Mayor Shepley and Members of the City Council: When I … Continue reading
McHenry County making the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times twice in one week. That’s probably a record since the tragic school bus-Metra train collision in Fox River Grove in the mid-1990’s. First we are treated to the Thursday revelation … Continue reading
From the Crystal Lake Police Department: Crystal Lake Traffic Crashes March 1st , 2011 On Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Crystal Lake Police and Fire Rescue Departments responded to the 1100 block of North Shore Drive, Crystal Lake … Continue reading
It’s that time of year when the sun reflects off the overhead electric wires down from our home on Lake Avenue in Lakewood. We live right on the Algonquin-Grafton Township line. You can see those who surveyed the two townships … Continue reading