Electricity Price Comparison

You want to save money and you don’t want to live in the stone age. That’s a reasonable request, and shouldn’t be too much of a problem. But how do you deal with the rising electricity prices? They are rising faster than the unemployment rate! Yikes, double-digit increases that don’t pinch – they sting!

Depending on where you live (if you’re from Hawaii, Connecticut or New York) you’re paying very high amounts for your electricity. Now you can’t move to save money like that, but one of the first factors in not working day and night to pay for … Continue Reading

According to Crain’s Chicago Business there’s a rate hike coming in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of 2010.

ComEd the local utility which provides electricity in Northern Illinois – to approximately 70% of the state’s population including Chicago – has announced the inevitable increase to recoup the cost of maintaining and upgrading the system and power-lines.

While I certainly understand that they incur costs and expenses for regular updates – I don’t see why it needs to be increased because the upkeep of the delivery system (note: ComEd does not own power plants – they just maintain the delivery) should already … Continue Reading