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

Utility and supplier-choice checkpoint

The utilities below are local service context, not an address-level eligibility guarantee. Confirm the current bill, service address, account holder, and rate class before requesting a change.

Electricity: Eligible ComEd-served business accounts can compare retail electric supply while ComEd continues delivery. Use the ICC’s electric-choice explanation and the account’s ComEd tariff and rate class. Keep supply, delivery demand, and capacity inputs separate.

Natural gas: Nicor lists this community in its service territory. For a Nicor business account, Customer Select is the relevant supplier-choice program. Check current eligibility, supplier fees, billing arrangements, and applicable utility charges and credits.

Supplier selection affects the supply arrangement. It does not replace the delivery utility or its infrastructure and emergency responsibilities. A change in supplier does not guarantee a lower total bill.

Ask what “fixed” covers before comparing plant offers

For an Elk Grove Village manufacturing or warehouse account, two proposals with the same energy price can have very different exposure. Ask each bidder to state whether capacity, transmission, ancillary services, losses, and administrative fees are included, fixed separately, estimated, or passed through. An unresolved item should remain unresolved in the calculator.

Use interval data and a production calendar to explain a proposed second shift, refrigeration expansion, or major equipment change. Measured monthly peak kW is useful for delivery-demand analysis, but it does not replace ComEd’s capacity PLC. The operating team should review whether schedule changes are feasible before a modeled demand reduction enters the budget.

Account review steps

1. Collect twelve months of billed demand plus available interval data.
2. Request a complete cost-inclusion matrix for every supplier proposal.
3. Record expansion plans and volume-band terms before evaluating term length.

Worked Energy Desk example

Suppose two complete electric proposals cover 228,000 kWh a year over the same term. Offer A includes all modeled variable supply components at 8¢/kWh plus $20 per month. Offer B includes the same components at 8.4¢/kWh with no monthly fee. The offer comparison calculates annual supply costs of $18,480 and $19,152, a difference of $672.

Set an included component to zero only when the proposal confirms it is included or inapplicable; leave an unresolved component blank. Delivery and taxes still need separate treatment. For gas, select the gas mode and use consistent therm-based rates, including the bill’s heat-content factor when converting Ccf. These are illustrative inputs, not local utility rates, supplier quotes, or promised savings.

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 Customer Select 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 Customer Select 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.