{"id":369685,"date":"2010-02-27T11:17:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T16:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/comed-to-seek-another-spring-rate-hike"},"modified":"2010-02-27T11:17:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T16:17:30","slug":"comed-to-seek-another-spring-rate-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/369685","title":{"rendered":"ComEd to seek another spring rate hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO\u00a0(STMW)\u00a0 &#8212; ComEd has tipped its hand. <span id=\"more-21526\"><\/span>The electric utility plans to seek a rate increase this year on top of one it&#8217;s due to receive this spring.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe company said it will ask the Illinois Commerce Commission for a rate hike in a few months. It declined to say how much it will seek. Spokesman Bennie Currie said the utility cut costs by $200 million in 2009 while still spending to upgrade its system. He said ComEd needs to be compensated for that work.  <\/p>\n<p>\nThe utility disclosed its plans at a Feb. 3 investor conference for its parent company, Exelon Corp.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe ICC has given ComEd permission to implement a $70 million rate increase in April. The money will cover escalating costs from unpaid bills and is expected to cost the average residential customer about $1 per month.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn September 2008, ComEd raised its rates by $270 million.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a  href=\"http:\/\/wbbm780.com\/content_page.php?contentType=4&amp;contentId=5656628\" title=\"ComEd to seek another spring rate hike\" 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\/Y9K2HZ_n23OcLsQfLdlPiMY3J40\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Y9K2HZ_n23OcLsQfLdlPiMY3J40\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Y9K2HZ_n23OcLsQfLdlPiMY3J40\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Y9K2HZ_n23OcLsQfLdlPiMY3J40\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=889i6N4ZNjA:MHikK8t6_GY: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=889i6N4ZNjA:MHikK8t6_GY: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=889i6N4ZNjA:MHikK8t6_GY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=889i6N4ZNjA:MHikK8t6_GY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/889i6N4ZNjA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO\u00a0(STMW)\u00a0 &#8212; ComEd has tipped its hand. The electric utility plans to seek a rate increase this year on top of one it&#8217;s due to receive this spring. The company said it will ask the Illinois Commerce Commission for a rate hike in a few months. It declined to say how much it will seek. [&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-369685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369685","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=369685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}