Over 8,300 small business owners across northern Illinois saved over $23 million on their electric bills since the beginning of the pandemic. By participating in the ComEd Energy Efficiency Program, the businesses avoided 255 million kilowatt hours (kWh) in energy use or the equivalent to reducing more than 124,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Small public facilities and small private businesses received more than $60 million in incentives through the program to make energy efficiency upgrades to their facilities.

The ComEd Energy Efficiency Program small-business offerings are one of the ways the energy company has supported this important segment of our communities during the pandemic. Last year, ComEd also established the Small-Business Assistance program, which distributed a total of nearly $2 million in one-time grants to help more than 2,000 small businesses with past-due balances. Funds for the program have since been exhausted. To learn more about how these small businesses received energy-saving solutions, click here. For more information on the small business offering, visit ComEd.com/SmallBiz.