answersLogoWhite

0

try there webpage... {| !

|

exeloncorp.com

Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) faces the not-so-common task of powering up Chicago. ComEd, a subsidiary of utility holding company Exelon, distributes electricity to 3.8 million homes and businesses in Chicago and surrounding areas of Northern Illinois, 70% of the state's population. The utility owns more than 90,000 circuit miles of transmission and distribution lines; it receives most of its power supply from sister company Exelon Generation. ComEd has joined regional operator PJM Interconnection, which manages wholesale activities on the utility's transmission grid

Commonwealth Edison (or "ComEd") is the largest electric utility in http://www.answers.com/topic/illinois, serving the http://www.answers.com/topic/chicago and Northern Illinois area. The service territory roughly borders in http://www.answers.com/topic/iroquois-county-illinois to the south, the http://www.answers.com/topic/Wisconsin border to the north, the http://www.answers.com/topic/iowa border to the west, and the Indiana border to the East. For more than 100 years, Commonwealth Edison has been the primary electric delivery services company for Northern Illinois. Today, ComEd is a unit of Chicago-based http://www.answers.com/topic/exelon (NYSE: EXC), one of the nation's largest electric and gas utility holding companies. ComEd provides electric service to more than 3.7 million customers across Northern Illinois, or nearly 70 percent of the state's population. Commonwealth Edison's transmission lines operate at http://www.answers.com/topic/voltage-7 of 69,000, 138,000, 345,000, and 765,000 volts, delivering power to their 3.8 million customer base. The company's revenues total more than $15 billion annually. ComEd has interconnections with http://www.answers.com/topic/american-electric-power on its 765KV system and with http://www.answers.com/topic/wisconsin-energy-corporation to the north on its 345KV and 138KV systems and with http://www.answers.com/topic/ameren to the south on its 345KV system.

|}

User Avatar

Wiki User

16y ago

What else can I help you with?