(The Center Square) – Stories of an outright ban on gas stoves in America are being overblown, according to an Illinois interest group. Once the Consumer Product Safety Commission hinted it was were considering a ban on.
ComEd says that’s the cost of bolstering the region’s electric grid in a statewide effort to phase out carbon emissions and of protecting the system from severe weather damage as it becomes more common due to climate change.
Chicago-area households could see their electric bills bump up by $6.72 per month next year and that would only be the first of three straight annual hikes under a record-high $1.5 billion rate increase request filed by ComEd on Tuesday.