A recent editorial (“Put ComEd, Peoples Gas rate increase requests under the microscope,” ) rightly calls for thorough regulatory oversight of ComEd’s multi-year grid and rate plans but fails, in our view, to fully explain why these plans are critical to ensuring a reliable, equitable transition to a clean energy future for the 9 million people we serve in northern Illinois.
ComEd customers today enjoy record-breaking, nation-leading reliability because of prudent and necessary grid investments. But it wasn’t that long ago that most ComEd customers considered frequent power outages something to be expected.
