ComEd pushing efficiency programs :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Business

ComEd pushing efficiency programs :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Business: "Commonwealth Edison is seeking to offer consumers a host of energy-efficiency programs beginning next year that it says could save consumers roughly $155 million over the life of the programs. In a filing today to the Illinois Commerce Commission, ComEd details the programs which include incentives for ComEd residential customers to recycle appliances and switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs and for business customers to develop and customize large-scale energy-efficiency programs. If approved, the utility would begin offering the programs in June. Legislation passed in Springfield rolling back ComEd rate increases that took effect in January mandate energy-efficiency goals, advocated by the utility and others, that culminated in today's filing. If the goals are met, ComEd customers would cut their electricity consumption by a total of 1.2 million megawatt hours by the end of the three-year program. That would equal the amount of electricity needed to power roughly 120,000 homes for a year, the utility said."