ComEd Energy Efficiency Program Receives National Recognition From Energy Coalition

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Alliance to Save Energy presents ComEd with Stars of Energy Efficiency Award for efforts that help low-income customers achieve nearly $63 million in lifetime bill savings

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ComEd’s Energy Efficiency Program won the Stars of Energy Efficiency award in the Power & Utilities category from the Alliance to Save Energy (ASE). The award highlights ComEd’s efforts to lower energy costs for customers facing high energy burdens. ASE announced the recognition at its 33rd annual gala May 6 in Washington, DC, where five finalists competed in the Power & Utilities category.

Last year, the ComEd EE Program – which offers a variety of services and incentives to help customers manage energy use, lower costs and protect the environment – achieved its most impactful year to date. It offered energy efficiency solutions to low-income customers and communities focused on environmental justice throughout northern Illinois – showing that an equity-driven utility portfolio can significantly enhance affordability and deliver widespread energy savings.

In 2025, ComEd delivered $95 million in incentives to income-eligible customers – about one-third of total incentives for that year. Incentives help defray the costs of energy-efficiency improvements. These efforts resulted in an estimated $62.9 million in lifetime bill savings for participating households by lowering energy use, improving heating and cooling performance, and replacing inefficient appliances. Some programs offer no-cost delivery, which eliminates upfront expenses to help customers further reduce monthly bills.

“We are grateful to be recognized by an organization that is a leading international authority on energy efficiency,” said Gil Quiniones, President & CEO at ComEd. “ComEd boasts one of the nation’s largest EE programs, and for years we have been helping customers reduce consumption and costs. Since we launched the EE program in 2008, we saved customers enough electricity to power 12 million ComEd homes for one year, while taking over $13 billion off our customers’ bills and avoiding 77 billion pounds of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere.”

These environmental savings are the equivalent of planting 38 million acres of trees or removing nearly 9 million cars from the road for one year.

“There has never been a more important time to embrace energy efficiency,” Alliance president Paula Glover said. “With the United States set to shatter records for electricity demand this and next year, and energy being increasingly unaffordable for millions of Americans, it’s time to get serious about saving energy and embrace efficiency as the fastest, lowest cost way to address what is now an energy crisis.”

ASE’s award is the latest recognition for the ComEd EE Program. In 2024, ComEd received the ENERGY STAR^® Partner of the Year—Sustained Excellence Award, the highest honor from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, for the 12th year in a row. This award is given to select organizations chosen from thousands of ENERGY STAR partners, honoring those whose programs show measurable energy savings and help mitigate climate change.

Company Efforts to Maintain Lowest Possible Energy Bills

The ComEd Energy Efficiency Program is one of several options that the energy company offers to help address rising energy supply costs – driven by increasingly extreme temperatures and supply-demand imbalances which account for nearly half of customers' energy bills – that continue to impact families and businesses. ComEd does not set supply prices, which are passed on without profit to ComEd.

ComEd’s energy efficiency programs reflect the energy company’s dedication to The Exelon Promise. This customer-focused strategy from parent company Exelon aims to provide quick relief, strong protections and lasting solutions to rising energy costs. This includes:

• the January launch of the Low-Income Discount (LID) program, which offers qualifying income-eligible ComEd customers percentage-based discounts on their electric bills based on income level up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level. These discounts are intended to reduce energy costs to 3 to 6 percent of total household income;
• the January launch of ComEd’s Delivery Time-of-Day pricing rate, which helps households save money by shifting energy use to times when electricity prices are lower and demand is reduced;
• last year’s launch of the $10 million Customer Relief Fund, which provided bill relief to more than 30,000 ComEd customers. Later this year, ComEd plans an extension of the program, which launched in collaboration with its parent company, Exelon; and
• ongoing support for legislation that resulted in customers receiving bill credits of over $803 million – or approximately $13 a month depending on usage – over each of the first five months of this year.

ComEd residential customers can find energy efficiency services, incentives, and rebates at ComEd.com/HomeSavings, while business offerings are listed at ComEd.com/BizSavings.

To help customers sort through the full range of energy-efficiency and bill-assistance programs, ComEd offers its Smart Assistance Manager at ComEd.com/SAM. This online resource asks customers a few questions, then sorts through all the options ComEd has available to recommend personalized options. SAM will also provide links for more information and to apply.

About ComEd

ComEd is a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation (NASDAQ: EXC), a Fortune 200 company and one of the nation’s largest utility companies, serving almost 11 million customers through six fully regulated transmission and distribution utilities — Atlantic City Electric, BGE, ComEd, Delmarva Power, PECO, and Pepco. ComEd powers the lives of more than 4 million customers across northern Illinois, or 70 percent of the state's population. For more information visit ComEd.com, and connect with the company on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.

About the Alliance

The Alliance to Save Energy is a leading bipartisan, fuel-neutral nonprofit coalition dedicated to advancing energy efficiency as the fastest, most cost-effective way to meet growing energy demand and strengthen economic competitiveness. Convening leaders from industry, government, and the nonprofit sector, the Alliance drives policy, informs regulatory frameworks, and expands awareness of energy efficiency’s role in lowering costs and improving energy resilience. Since 1977, the Alliance has worked to champion energy efficiency as a foundational energy resource that reduces demand, avoids costly infrastructure, and delivers measurable, system-wide impact.

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