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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Updated: 10/01/05    Source: EC Power
The Illinois electric utility industry is undergoing some changes that may affect the way you purchase your electricity. As in many other states, the marketplace for electricity suppliers is opening to competition.

The Illinois Electric Service Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law of 1997 restructures the state's electric utility industry to offer customers choices about who supplies their electric power, competitive prices for that power, and new services. During 1998, in the first year of the law's implementation, many residential customers of Illinois investor-owned electric utilities received a base rate reduction.

As of December 31, 2000, all non-residential customers have the option to choose their electric supplier. That supplier may be the current electric utility, another Illinois electric utility, or an alternative retail electric supplier certified by the Illinois Commerce Commission.

Regardless of which company you select to be the supplier of electricity, your current electric utility company will continue to deliver the electricity to businesses and homes in your area.
You are not obligated to make a change. The law simply provides the opportunity.

The ability to choose an electric supplier will create new opportunities for Illinois electric customers, such as additional pricing options and service packages. Most important, establishing electric choice will allow customers to select a company that can best meet their individual needs. Restructuring electric service may benefit our state economically as well. It may encourage competition -- attracting alternative retail electric suppliers to operate in Illinois, allowing Illinois utilities to market outside their service areas in other areas of the state, and generating business growth and development throughout the state.

If you should encounter any problems or need further information, please call (713) 356-0060.
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