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ComEd Prepared for Extreme Summer Heat
Energy company ready to safely deliver electricity during heat wave, offers customers tips to safe energy and money CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Northern
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nEnergy company ready to safely deliver electricity during heat wave, offers customers tips to safe energy and money\n\n\n CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nNorthern Illinois is anticipating extreme heat exceeding 90 degrees and forecasted summer rainstorms over the coming days. ComEd has been hard at work for the past several months to ensure the company’s critical electric infrastructure is prepared to handle increased demand during times of prolonged higher temperatures. This proactive effort also includes infrastructure work to strengthen the local energy grid to prevent outages caused by severe summer storms.\n\n\nWith severe weather showing up early and often, and high summer temperatures placing more stress on the electric grid, ComEd has taken steps to ensure reliable energy for the 9 million people it serves in northern Illinois.\n\n\n“Extreme heat resulting from climate change continues to impact our service territory, but we are ready to meet those challenges,” said Terence Donnelley, president and COO of ComEd. “The investments we are making to modernize the power grid are increasing our resilience to severe weather like heat waves.”\n\n\nSystem investments continue to keep the grid reliable\n\n\nComEd has a variety of programs and processes in place to protect against the impacts of severe weather, including Distribution Automation, a technology that has helped ComEd avoid more than 15 million customer outages; light detection and ranging, or Lidar, which helps to identify trees that might be more susceptible to the effects of climate change; and an outage prediction tool that uses analytics from system data to map out effective preventative maintenance.\n\n\nLast year, investments in the power grid continued to pay reliability dividends for ComEd customers as the electric company delivered record reliability. Since grid improvements began in 2011, overall reliability has improved more than 80 percent. In that time, ComEd has avoided more than 19 million power outages for customers, saving more than $3.3 billion in outage-related costs. In 2022, ComEd had its best reliability on record.\n\n\nEnergy efficiency tips for hot weather\n\n\nThe projected weather system will bring a period of high heat and humidity. ComEd offers the following tips for customers to manage their energy usage, while saving money on their electric ...