Duke Energy:
- The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) will decide whether to consider a judge's recommendation that ComEd be forced to start work as soon as possible on a smart meter installation program that the utility is trying to delay.
- ComEd was supposed to receive $2.6 billion in smart grid modernization funding to install the meters, but announced they would be putting off the program until 2015 when the funding was cut.
- Last week, the state Senate passed a non-binding resolution that called on the ICC to reverse its decision to reduce ComEd's funding; all-told, ComEd and the ICC disagree on 12 technical matters involved with the funding.
From the article:
The commissioners will consider an ICC judge's recommendation that ComEd be forced to start work as soon as possible. "Ratepayers begin paying for meters in January 2013 and the company doesn't want to begin installing them until 2015. This is unacceptable and unsupported," Administrative Law Judge Leslie Haynes wrote.
The vote is the latest chapter in a battle involving the ICC, the Legislature and ComEd, a subsidiary of Chicago-based Exelon Corp. ...