Commercial Energy in Elk Grove Village, IL: Electricity & Gas

Elk Grove Village is one of the most industrial communities in Illinois, home to one of the largest contiguous industrial parks in the country. For the manufacturers, warehouses, and cold-storage operators here, commercial energy is a real operating cost — and the accounts reward careful procurement.

Utilities in Elk Grove Village

• Electricity: ComEd is the delivery utility. Eligible commercial customers can choose a competitive electricity supplier or remain on utility default supply. See the ComEd commercial guide.
• Natural gas: Nicor Gas is the delivery utility, with commercial supplier choice available through its Choices for You program. See the Nicor Gas commercial guide.

The utility does not change when a business chooses a supplier — ComEd and Nicor continue to deliver energy and handle emergencies. Confirm both utilities from a recent bill for any specific address.

Supply vs delivery: what an industrial account can shop

Every Elk Grove Village commercial bill separates into delivery and supply. Delivery is what ComEd charges to run the wires and Nicor charges to run the pipes, along with metering, billing, and emergency response — a regulated cost set by the Illinois Commerce Commission that does not change with the supplier. Supply is the energy commodity, and that is the part an eligible account can put out to bid.

An eligible commercial electric account can contract supply with a licensed Alternative Retail Electric Supplier (ARES) or stay on ComEd's default utility supply. Nicor's Choices for You program does the same for gas through certified suppliers, while Nicor keeps delivering the gas and handling leaks. For an energy-intensive plant, the structure of the supply contract — fixed, indexed, or blended, and how it treats capacity — can matter as much as the headline rate, because a spiky industrial load carries demand and capacity costs that a simple price comparison misses. None of this affects reliability: ComEd owns the wires and meter and restores power, and Nicor maintains the pipes and responds to emergencies, no matter who supplies the commodity.

What shapes energy costs here

Because so many Elk Grove Village accounts are industrial, the cost drivers are often the same ones covered in manufacturing and cold storage energy procurement:

• Demand (kW) charges from motors, compressors, and process equipment.
• Capacity exposure in the ComEd/PJM zone, where peak behavior sets the facility's capacity tag.
• Process natural gas for heat, ovens, or drying, on top of building heat.

The meter on a high-usage building records not just total energy (kWh) but the highest rate of use in the month (kW), and that peak drives the demand charge. In the ComEd/PJM market, peak behavior across a handful of high-demand summer hours also sets a capacity tag (PLC) that follows the account into the next delivery year and into its supply cost — so two similar-sized plants can carry very different bills depending on how sharp their peaks are. A PJM capacity auction clearing price, worth noting, is a wholesale market figure, not a rate on a bill. Cold-storage and food operations add steady year-round refrigeration load, and process gas for heat, ovens, or drying can be significant on top of building heat, so both commodities usually deserve attention. For these facilities, demand-charge analysis is frequently as valuable as shopping the supply rate.

Getting started

Provide 12 months of electric and gas bills (and interval data where available) for an Elk Grove Village facility, and the account can be reviewed and priced on matched terms through the procurement process. Gather the utility account numbers, the rate class on each bill, and any current supplier contract's end date so timing aligns with the renewal. Operators with several buildings in the park can group accounts through multi-location procurement. No savings figure is promised in advance.