Archive for March 2023
After filing record rate hike, Peoples Gas posts record profits for sixth consecutive year.
CHICAGO – Peoples Gas made $208 million in profit in 2022, breaking its earnings record for the sixth consecutive year, according to a year-end financial report published Thursday. The report comes days after more than 100 people gathered outside Peoples Gas headquarters to call on regulators to reject the Chicago gas utility’s proposed $402 million rate hike, the…
Read MoreICJC launches full-page newspaper ads across Central and Southwestern Illinois decrying Ameren’s excessive profit grab and record rate-hike request
With Central and Southern Illinois already besieged by high energy bills, the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition (ICJC) announced Thursday the placement of full-page newspaper ads to alert Ameren Illinois customers about the company’s record rate-hike requests and excessive profit grab. “We are rallying Ameren customers to speak out against this excessive profit grab that will drive our energy bills…
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