Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Ad battle is electrifying

With negotiations set to heat up in Springfield this week onlegislation that would open the electricity market in Illinois tocompetition, backers of competing plans are using radio and newspaperadvertising campaigns in a battle for support.

Commonwealth Edison Co. has been running ads lauding a plan itand Illinois Power Co. back that would bring competition to largeindustrial and commercial customers in the state in 2000 andresidential customers in 2005. The ads say other plans placeconsumers at risk.

"The plan we support was put together by most of the state'selectric utilities and others," says the radio spot. "And it's theonly plan that doesn't risk the …

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