ComEd To Give $803M In Bill Credits To Illinois Customers In 2026
What's your Northern Illinois winter heating strategy? Keep the temperature really low and bundle up inside the house to keep the bill down, or crank it up to keep warm and just deal with the bill when it comes?
If you’ve opened your electric bill lately and felt your blood pressure and anxiety levels rise a little, you’re far from being alone.
A lot of us in Illinois have been wondering when some relief might finally show up. Well, 2026 is actually bringing a bit of good news. ComEd customers across northern Illinois will be getting a pretty hefty round of bill credits. And not the five-bucks-here, 10-bucks-there kind, we’re talking about more than $803 million going back to customers over the first half of the year.
Here's What's Going On, And How It Will Affect Your Bills
A few years back, Illinois passed the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA), the big clean-energy bill you probably remember hearing about when lawmakers were sorting out the future of the state’s nuclear plants. Part of that law created a system where, if energy market prices climb high enough, the participating nuclear plants have to pay back the difference. And that money doesn’t go into a vault somewhere, it gets funneled right back to the rest of us through bill credits.
Starting next month in January 2026, you’ll see those credits automatically show up on your ComEd bill. You'll have no forms to fill out, no hoops to jump through. For most households, it’ll shake out to somewhere around $13 a month off your bill from January through May.
Not life-changing, but definitely the kind of break people can use when the furnace has been running nonstop.
You'll Find The Savings Under The Section Of Your Bill Related To The Carbon Mitigation Credit (CMC) Program
That’s ComEd’s way of labeling the nuclear-energy portion of your rates, and now it’s where the payback shows up.
The timing is pretty good, too. The last couple of years have delivered some painfully high electricity costs, especially during the summer heat waves and the winter spikes. So getting a few months where the bill moves in the other direction is not going to remove all the stress from paying your bill, but it might dial it back a notch or two.
ComEd says these credits could continue into 2027 if energy prices keep triggering payouts under CEJA. In other words, this isn’t necessarily a one-and-done.