Talk:Commonwealth Edison

message: The history section starts "Commonwealth Edison was founded by Samuel Insull, only one of several persons whose life and death comprised the composite characters incorporated in the renowned film, Citizen Kane. "  The first reference (ref 2) only says re: Insull "The film also incorporates incidents from the lives of other early twentieth century tycoons,like utility magnate Samuel Insul,who had constructed an opera house for his wife in Chicago." The second reference (ref 3) is to an unreliable source, a religious blog called "Lifeway.com" which has a discredited anecdote about a meeting which really did not happen, which Insull supposedly attended. The third Insull reference (ref 4) is  to an apparently factual history of the financial collapse of Insull's financial empire. The article Samuel Insull provides references which are less POV and say he was Thomas Edison's secretary and a founder of Edison General Electric, which became General Electric, before he came to Chicago to head Commonwealth Edison, which was a merger of Commonwealth Electric and Chicago Edison. He also founded Public Service, which developed rural electrification in the area of northern Illinois outside Chicago. The present text is POV, unbalanced, and unencyclopedic, so I will remove the part about "Citizen Kane." 24.12.184.179 05:52, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Going on at great length about a claim that a movie was partially based on one or 2 incidents, such as building an opera house, in the life of the founder of the company is not the sort of encyclopedic detail that goes into a short article about a large company with a long history. Commonwealth Edison was not in the movie Citizen Kane. Take your notions about Samuel Insull to an article about him. How many presidents has the company had since the early 1930s? Your personal billing issues are also not encyclopedic. Find reliably sourced encyclopedic info and improve the article by adding that to make a neutral point of view article worth of Wikipedia. The items tagged as needing sources ("citizen groups have determined," "a physicist found") will have to be removed if you cannot provide reliable sources. An article cannot be made into an attack on a company you are mad at. I think the long complaint about your bill which you previously had in the article illustrates your hard feelings toward the subject of the article. The anecdote about the supposed meeting at the Edgewater Beach Hotel was invented by an official in Campus Crusade for Christ. It did not happen. But preachers have recited it for many years nonetheless. Also see WP:NPOV. Tiny Bill 22:33, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Samuel Insull

message: I have moved the following passage here, becasue it is unsourced and demonstrably false: 
ComEd exclusively purchases its power from generation companies now owned by Exelon whose acquired facilities include those formerly owned by ComEd.{fact}  When purchases of power exceed current demands of the grid directly serviced by ComEd,  ComEd sells such excess power to systems where diverse ownership of systems  assures a double windfall for the utility.  The total price of power is projected to the bottom line of ComEd for the purposes of stating needs for rate-payer increases. Such needs for increases were shown by consumer groups to be based upon all power purchased with no allowance for sales to other systems and where projections do not allow for conservation measures adopted by consumers.{fact} Such measures include those adopted enmasse in anticipation of the rate increase including the utilization of long-life low consumption fluorescent lighting bulbs which energy consumption reduction rates exceed 75%.
In fact, Commonwealth Edison buys a fair amount of its power from Midwest Generation  which is a subsidiary of Edison International, not affiliated with Commonwealth Edison or its parent company Exelon. Midwest Energy purchased all of the coal, oil and natural gas fired power plants formerly owned by Commonwealth Edison, and Exelon, ComEds parent company, kept the nuclear plants. Thus all the unsourced stuff about the "double windfall" is wrong. Tiny Bill 23:08, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The username an editor chooses is pretty much meaningless. If it helps you avoid personal attacks I could switch to something like Red E. Kilowatt or perhaps Will E. Wiredhand or whatever name you do not find objectionable. My objections to POV and unsourced edits would remain the same. You incorrectly claimed that Commonwealth Edison bought all their power from companies owned by Exelon. The disagreement was not wether there was to be a reverse auction. The info about Midwest generation is in fact sourced in the previous paragraph to []. Edison International, as the reference says, bought the fossil fueled plants from ComEd. They are in fact a separate company dating back a hundred years or so. Please do not make false claims that different companies are the same company because the names sound similar. A lightning bug is not a lightning bolt, and Edison International is not Commonwealth Edison or Exelon. The Citizens Utility Board itself is an advocacy group and public action group and could not be considered a reliable source for anything but information about the organization itself. A state commerce commision would be a more respected source, but is run by political appointees and their statements are as subject to evaluation as those of any other organ of state government. It would sure be great to go on buying power at prices of the mid 1990's as ComEd customers did during the years of the rate freeze. I wonder if the Illinois legislature has considered roilling gas prices, clothing prices, and food prices back to those of the 1990's not to mention college tuition and medical expenses. It would be great. Wonder what the downside would be? All citations should comply with WP:ATT which is the standard governing referencing. Regards. Tiny Bill 22:08, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Incorrect passage moved here

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message: I have a COI as a paid advisor to Exelon. I would like to request:
1) that in the Infobox, the stock exchange info be updated to include the new stock symbol of the parent company, Excelon. It is "NASDAQ: EXC" with the hyperlink: 
New infograph line would be: | parent = Exelon Corporation NASDAQ: EXC 
2) In paragraph two, the stock symbol should also be changed: "For more than 100 years, Commonwealth Edison has been the primary electric delivery services company for Northern Illinois. Today, ComEd is a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation (NASDAQ: EXC)...
deleting:  "(NYSE: EXC)" 
The switch from NYSE to NASDAQ happened today, September 25, 2019 at 9:30 a.m.
Thank you. 16:11, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The Wikilink to Exelon provides the correct ticker symbol and market in Exelon's article.  Spintendo  04:17, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request Edit 

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Federated Electric. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  signed, Rosguill talk 22:35, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Federated Electric" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: There is nothing in the article about anything between 1935 and 1994. Those were the years when the company became the largest nuclear operator in the U.S. The nuclear construction program was the subject of tremendous controversy and litigation throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s. Nothing at all in here about any of that.Lafong (talk) 01:54, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gap in Company History 

message: ComEd appointed a new CEO, updated infobox: https://www.comed.com/News/Pages/NewsReleases/2021-10-14.aspx  LJ (talk) 06:17, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: New CEO

message: Report outages 534 E. Wildwood Villa Park IL 60181 2600:1008:B169:18D4:9512:E31C:F3B6:53E1 (talk) 20:01, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Report outages 534 E. Wildwood Villa Park IL 60181 

message: Given how the ComEd corruption scandal has generated lots of media attention and has resulted in four high-profile convictions - of a its former CEO, former lobbyist, and a top aid to the Illinois House Speaker - does the scandal's significance warrant it's own page? Wburn (talk) 02:36, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corruption scandal page?