ComEd Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill Explained

ComEd reported 3,020,130 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 606 kWh a month on average at 17.71 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 18 Illinois utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, ComEd ranks 17 from the lowest price.

Another 733,794 residential customers use ComEd for delivery only and buy their energy from a different supplier. EIA reports their delivery revenue at about 8.89 cents per kWh, or $61.15 a month, which does not include the supply price.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

EIA lists the counties where ComEd has distribution equipment. That covers 24 counties in Illinois. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, ComEd reported an average of 38 minutes without power per customer and 0.54 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 70 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

ComEd had about 89 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Illinois figure across its utilities was 62 minutes. One interruption lasting 70 minutes and 0.54 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 38 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under IEEE 1366. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. ComEd does not report a residential time-of-use program in its 2025 EIA filing. Ask the utility, because programs change. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 73,159 residential net-metered systems on the ComEd grid in 2025, with 552.3 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. In Illinois, that review is done by the Illinois Commerce Commission.

ComEd is an investor-owned utility based in Illinois.

ComEd operates in the PJM power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

Of the 23 utilities listed for Illinois, ComEd is the 1st largest by homes, at roughly 69.2% of the state total. Illinois has too few other investor-owned utilities with reported prices to compare ComEd with its type, so the state average of 17.67 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. Over a year, the typical ComEd bill runs about $231 below the state average, with monthly use 111 kWh lower. ComEd lists distribution equipment in 24 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 73,159 of its residential customers use net metering, or 19.5 per 1,000 homes, against 22.9 for Illinois as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Illinois with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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