With 75 big projects in its pipeline—enough load to exceed its all-time peak—ComEd wants to raise the deposit for large energy requests to weed out speculative data center plans. (Crain’s)
Right now, it’s a $1 million deposit for 50+ MW. Under the new proposal: $1 million base plus $500K for every additional 100 MW. That’s $5.5 million for a 1 GW request—the size ComEd says it’s now seeing with increasing regularity.