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: Com Ed
From the Environmental Defenders of McHenry County: Reserve your spot with THE ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS’ COMMUNITY SOLAR FARM PLEASE RESPOND BY JANUARY 8. “I would like to express my appreciation for the Defender’s efforts to bring community solar to our Dean … Continue reading
A message from State Rep. Barb Wheeler: Review for week of December 5, 2016 Last week, I had the opportunity to speak to a civics class at Prairie Ridge High School. It was great to see such a high level … Continue reading
A message from State Senator Karen McConnaughay: Legislative Update From Veto Session Week 2 Having just wrapped up the second week of veto session, I can report that there was a lot of action in Springfield this week. An important … Continue reading
Occupied by other stories toward the end of the General Election season, McHenry County Blog fell behind in reporting big ($1,000 or more) contributions to State Rep. and Countty Board Chairman candidate Jack Franks. Below is what was reported since … Continue reading
Everyone has two legislators–a State Representative and a Senator. Commonwealth Edison is doing its best to convince the General Assembly to force your rates higher in order to keep two nuclear power plants open. Com Ed, known as the “power” … Continue reading
If I were running against Jack Franks, I would be knocking on doors of homes with Com Ed electric lines in front of them. Why? Because Jack Franks introduced House Bill 3884, a bill to allow Com Ed to chop down … Continue reading
Maybe we should hope that State Rep. Jack Franks will file a Statement of Withdrawal and just run for the McHenry County Board Chairmanship. (But, Franks hasn’t pulled out of the race. Or has Jack Franks finally filed a Withdrawal … Continue reading
On July 4th this Commonwealth Edison crew was working on poles next to the Fifth Third Bank on Route 14 in Crystal Lake. … Continue reading
Lots of Republicans are in the back pockets of our electric utilities, Com Ed and Ameren. State Senator Dan Duffy is not one of them, as you can see from his press release below: Duffy calls on Attorney General and … Continue reading
At nine o’clock in the morning Commonwealth Edison’s tree hackers were back at work on the block where we reside on Lake Avenue. Although branches were being fed into a chipper, ones in front of our house remained untouched. The … Continue reading
A press release concerning future electricity costs for most of those in McHenry County whose municipalities are buying it in bulk (think “aggregation”), which are going up almost 54% from 4.169 to 7.2 cents per kilowatt hour: NIGEAC ELECTRIC AGGREGATION … Continue reading
In 2012, there were many referendums asking whether residents wanted to have their municipalities or McHenry County to buy electricity for them, rather than take the power directly from Commonwealth Edison. The article Electric Aggregation Referendum Results Decidedly Mixed explains … 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
I don’t know how you read the above letter, but it sounds to me as if Democrat Jack Franks is threatening to sue Republican Cal Skinner because of the critical articles I have posted on McHenry County Blog. It seems … 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
Crystal Lake resident Paul Greenlee has shared his communication with the Crystal Lake City Council about a couple of items on tonight’s meeting agenda: Mayor Shepley and Members of the City Council: It is not clear whether or not I … Continue reading
State Rep. Jack Franks (D-Marengo) is using up a lot of political capital carrying Commonwealth Edison’s chainsaw. He has introduced legislation (House Bill 3884) which will allow electric utilities to chop down any tree within 20 feet of a power … Continue reading
Just in case you haven’t read the latest piece from “Tree Hugging” McHenry County Blogster Cal Skinner, you need to in order to set the stage for this follow-up article. Here’s where you can find it: Jack Franks Shows Tree … Continue reading
After his last minute “conversion” to the electric rate hike side of the bill promoted by Com Ed and Ameren, it appears that Democrat Jack Franks is now playing water boy for the not-so-regulated-as-before utilities. We have the Emily Berendt … Continue reading