Electric
The Quad Cities region has the infrastructure to meet your electricity needs, with a host of providers offering competitive cost advantage. Electricity for the Iowa-Illinois Quad Cities is provided by MidAmerican Energy Company. Other areas of the bi-state region are served by local municipalities, Illinois Power and ComEd.Illinois Electric Rates
MidAmerican Energy Company is the largest utility in Iowa and is strategically located in the middle of several major markets in the Midwest. The company provides services to more than 725,000 electric customers and more than 707,000 natural gas customers in a 10,600 square-mile area from Sioux Falls, S.D., to the Quad Cities area of Iowa and Illinois. The largest communities served by MidAmerican are Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Sioux City, Waterloo, Iowa City and Council Bluffs, Iowa; the Quad Cities area of Iowa and Illinois; and Sioux Falls, S.D.
At the end of 2009, MidAmerican had available nearly 7,200 megawatts of generating capability: approximately 52 percent fueled by coal; 21 percent natural gas and oil; 20 percent wind, hydroelectric and biomass; and 7 percent by nuclear. Production costs at MidAmerican's coal-fueled generation stations are lower than regional and national averages. The company has majority ownership in five of the six jointly owned coal-fueled generating stations in Iowa.
The last electric rate increase MidAmerican Energy customers experienced was in 1995, and the company has committed to keeping base electric rates - the cost per kilowatt-hour of electricity - stable in Iowa. The company does not have any plans to seek an electric rate increase for customers in Illinois.
MidAmerican Energy purchases and supplies natural gas to customers at cost. The base rate the company charges for the delivery of natural gas, which is set by state utility regulators, has been the same in Iowa and Illinois since 2002 .
The Illinois Commerce Commission approved changes to MidAmerican Energy's natural gas distribution rates, effective April 8, 2010. The average residential increase will be approximately $4 per month. Most small business customers will see a decrease in their distribution charges; larger business customers' bills will remain the same or increase slightly. This is MidAmerican's first natural gas distribution increase in Illinois in nearly eight years.
106 E. 2nd St.
Davenport, IA 52801
563-333-8927
Alliant Energy Corporation is a regulated, investor-owned public utility holding company providing regulated electric and natural gas service to approximately 1 million electric and 412,000 natural gas customers in the upper Midwestern states of Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. (Source: Alliant Energy)
4902 North Biltmore Lane, Suite 1000
Madison, WI
53718-2148
1-800-ALLIANT (1-800-255-4268)
Ameren companies, including our 80% share of Electric Energy, Inc., generate a net capacity of 16,800 megawatts of electricity. AmerenCILCO, AmerenCIPS and AmerenIP combined rank as the third largest Illinois natural gas distribution operation in total number of customers. AmerenUE is the third largest Missouri distributor of natural gas. (Source: Ameren)
AmerenCILCO
P.O. Box 66845
St. Louis, MO
63166-6845
1-877-677-5740
1-800-329-6261
