{"id":361756,"date":"2010-02-25T08:20:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T13:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/ahead-higher-electric-bill"},"modified":"2010-02-25T08:20:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T13:20:14","slug":"ahead-higher-electric-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/361756","title":{"rendered":"Ahead: higher electric bill?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CHICAGO (WBBM) &#8211;<\/strong> Look for a bigger electric bill in your mailbox next year.<\/p>\n<p>\nCrain&#8217;s Chicago Business reports ComEd plans to file with the Illinois Commerce Commission for a rate hike in the second or third quarter of next year. How much? No one is saying right now.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe rate-hike request comes on the heels of an additional $70 million dollars we will pay beginning in April to cover higher costs in 2008 and 2009 from unpaid bills.<\/p>\n<p>\nA new state law allows utilities to collect an additional amount each year to compensate for bad-debt expenses above the regular rates.<\/p>\n<p>\nAverage cost of that one for residential customers: a bit more than a dollar a month.<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>Read the original article from <a  href=\"http:\/\/wbbm780.com\/content_page.php?contentType=4&amp;contentId=5645445\" title=\"Ahead: higher electric bill?\" rel='nofollow'>WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/QsBM1RJjW_mi_TI_Ap3qVm0UEkE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/QsBM1RJjW_mi_TI_Ap3qVm0UEkE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/QsBM1RJjW_mi_TI_Ap3qVm0UEkE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/QsBM1RJjW_mi_TI_Ap3qVm0UEkE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=6OOjSi4X8zw:gHKYQCdM4dU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=6OOjSi4X8zw:gHKYQCdM4dU:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=6OOjSi4X8zw:gHKYQCdM4dU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=6OOjSi4X8zw:gHKYQCdM4dU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/6OOjSi4X8zw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (WBBM) &#8211; Look for a bigger electric bill in your mailbox next year. Crain&#8217;s Chicago Business reports ComEd plans to file with the Illinois Commerce Commission for a rate hike in the second or third quarter of next year. How much? No one is saying right now. The rate-hike request comes on the heels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}