About ComEd

Companies in Illinois can choose their supplier of electric generation. That means you can choose the supplier that best meets your needs and/or preferences, including source/method of generation, cost, incentives and combination of services. Competition is not available in our neighboring states, meaning that businesses are locked in to the rates and services that the local utility has set.

Lake County is proud to be served by ComEd as its electricity transmission and distribution utility. ComEd is part of the Exelon Corporation, headquartered in Chicago. The ComEd service territory covers 11,411 square miles in Northern Illinois, stretching from the Wisconsin border to as far south as Pontiac, Ill., and from the Indiana border to the Mississippi River. It covers approximately 70 percent of the customers in Illinois and the vast majority of the state’s industrial companies. ComEd’s transmission and distribution systems are very robust, with more than 5,000 miles of overhead transmission lines and approximately 43,400 miles of overhead distribution lines and 42,300 miles of underground distribution lines. ComEd is committed to safely delivering reliable electricity throughout the 400+ communities it serves across Northern Illinois.

Since 2000, ComEd has invested nearly $5 billion to expand, upgrade, and maintain our system as part of an ongoing commitment to improve system-wide reliability. Consequently, ComEd has significantly reduced its average number of customer outages (44% fewer outages) as well as the length of customer outages (53% faster restoration times when outages do occur).

Visit ComEd on the web at http://www.exeloncorp.com/.