This day in age, it’s almost impossible not to waste electricity. But what’s a few watts here and there when compared to the truly BIG electricity wasters out there that we should REALLY be focusing on?  We’ve compiled an exclusive list that breaks down the Top 7 most-wanted offenders of wasted power.  There’s probably nothing [...]

Greet the Heat Searing temperatures have blazed across the US this week as a record-breaking heat wave pushes the mercury to the 100 degree mark and beyond, carving a scorching swath that now looms on the eastern seaboard. As if the ever-present dangers of wildfires, drought, dehydration and heat exhaustion weren’t enough, a heat wave [...]

In the worst outage Illinois electricity customers have seen in more than a decade, an estimated 886,000 residents in Chicago and surrounding areas lost power from severe weather. About 369,000 still remain in the dark while the primary electric utility, ComEd, wrestles with the daunting task of restoring power to the affected zones. As severe [...]

As high gasoline prices and rising energy costs continue to chomp into the household budgets of so many Illinois residents, alternate electric suppliers are swiftly becoming an opportune refuge from the financial strain across the state. Electric Deregulation is nothing new to the Land of Lincoln – the first steps of the IL electric market [...]

Have you been passing over all those Green Energy options because you think they’re too much higher in cost than the traditional fossil-fueled counterparts?  If your only excuse to pass over the eco-friendly power in the past was the higher-than-average electricity prices, then you should be signing up for clean , green renewable energy on [...]