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ComEd Recognized as National Leader for Impact on Driving Jobs and Investment to Illinois
ComEd leads peer energy companies in attracting major, job-creating business projects with strong reliability performance and access to clean energy
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nComEd leads peer energy companies in attracting major, job-creating business projects with strong reliability performance and access to clean energy\n\n\n CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nComEd is again being hailed as a national leader for its work to drive economic growth and job creation across northern Illinois, according to new rankings out today by Site Selection Magazine, which named ComEd as one of the Top 20 utilities in economic development. Based on a review of corporate relocations and expansion from the last year and its research into utilities with active economic development departments, Site Selection finds ComEd is once again in the upper echelon of utilities in attracting new businesses, jobs and investments and for overall support of economic development.\n\n\n“Businesses need access to clean, reliable and affordable power, along with a skilled workforce and strong infrastructure – and they can get it all in ComEd’s service region,” said Gil C. Quiniones, President and CEO of ComEd. “ComEd is proud to deliver nation-leading reliability and clean energy infrastructure, powering economic growth in the region, while creating jobs and opportunity for people across northern Illinois.”\n\n\nThis marks the 10th time ComEd has earned the Top Utilities recognition – a testament to the company’s track record of providing best in the nation electrical service to over 9 million people, or 4.3 million total customers, including some of the largest companies in the world headquartered in northern Illinois. In 2023 alone, ComEd helped secure 15 new commercial projects collectively set to add 4,385 jobs at their facilities and more than $8.6 billion in local investment.\n\n\n“Power provision is vying with workforce as the most pressing issue for industrial companies nationwide amid a glut of major industrial facility projects such as data centers, semiconductor fabs and EV/battery supply chain projects,” said Adam Bruns, editor in chief of Site Selection. “As a supplement to our annual Top Utilities findings, this year we asked utility economic development leaders how their teams are working with operations and external stakeholders to address these concerns. Just like the day-to-day solutions their team develops for customers and communities, ComEd’s response is compelling.”\n\n\nIn this year’s rankings, Site Selection finds Co...