ComEd Named National Emergency Response Award Recipient for Outstanding Emergency Response Efforts
12 1월 2024 - 2:23AM
Business Wire
Awards recognize ComEd’s local recovery, mutual
assistance efforts to Midwest energy companies following 2023
summer storm
ComEd was recognized by The Edison Electric Institute (EEI), a
national association that represents all American investor-owned
electric companies, with two awards for its outstanding emergency
recovery and assistance efforts in 2023: The Emergency Assistance
Award, recognizing ComEd’s assistance efforts restoring service to
homes and businesses in the Midwest following the June 2023
derecho, a widespread, fast-moving collection of thunderstorms with
destructive winds, and the Emergency Recovery Award, recognizing
ComEd for its exemplary recovery efforts in response to severe
thunderstorms and tornadoes in Illinois last July.
“As severe weather caused by climate change continues to become
more commonplace, ComEd is committed to supporting our customers by
building and maintaining one of the country’s most reliable and
resilient power grids,” said David R. Perez, ComEd COO.
“When severe weather hits, our 6,300 employees step up to ensure
that our recovery process is as swift and efficient as possible,
and we’re honored that these awards recognize the incredible
efforts of the employees who work around-the-clock to maintain the
power grid in northern Illinois and lend their expertise to support
other utilities around the country.”
“America’s electric companies are committed to serving their
customers and communities and to restoring power safely and as
quickly as possible following severe storms and other extreme
weather events,” said Dan Brouillette, EEI President and CEO.
“ComEd’s commitment to restoring service to its customers under
challenging conditions following the Illinois tornados last summer
deserves recognition. I also commend ComEd for aiding neighboring
electric companies in their times of need. I am honored to present
ComEd and its storm response team with these well-earned emergency
recovery and assistance awards.”
ComEd earned EEI’s Emergency Recovery Award due to its recovery
efforts in July 2023, when over 124,000 ComEd customers experienced
outages following severe thunderstorms, high winds and six tornados
landing in northern Illinois. Over 1,700 ComEd line crews supported
the recovery process, totaling over 50,000 man-hours to restore
ComEd’s service territory. Thanks to the efforts of ComEd’s team
and grid hardening investments, sixty percent of customers were
restored within four hours of their outage, and ninety-nine percent
of customers were restored within 24 hours of their outage.
EEI’s Emergency Assistance Award was earned by ComEd due to
outstanding efforts helping other utilities restore power following
the life-threatening derecho that hit the Midwest in June 2023.
Severe thunderstorms produced dangerous wind gusts of up to 100
mph, causing significant damage throughout the Midwest. The derecho
was particularly impactful to customers in southern Illinois and
Indiana. ComEd deployed 368 employees and provided more than
600,000 hours of assistance for two utilities supporting customers
in those areas.
The Emergency Recovery Awards are presented to EEI member
companies twice a year. Presented to EEI member companies twice a
year, the Emergency Response Awards recognize recovery and
assistance efforts of electric companies following service
disruptions caused by extreme weather or other national events. The
winners are chosen by a panel of judges following an international
nomination process, and the awards were presented during EEI’s
winter Board of Directors and CEO meeting on January 10, 2024.
These awards are just the latest accolades earned by ComEd, and
follow the 2023 Reliability One® Outstanding System Reliability
Award, presented to ComEd by PA Consulting in November of 2023.
This award recognized the investment ComEd has made to harden its
system and bring greater reliability to customers during severe
weather and other events.
Since it began its smart grid investments, ComEd and its more
than 6,300 employees have helped customers avoid more than 19
million outages, saving more than $3.3 billion in outage-related
costs.
ComEd is a unit of Chicago-based Exelon
Corporation (NASDAQ: EXC), a Fortune 250 energy company with
approximately 10 million electricity and natural gas customers –
the largest number of customers in the U.S. ComEd powers the lives
of more than 4 million customers across northern Illinois, or 70
percent of the state’s population. For more information visit
ComEd.com, and connect with the company on Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram and YouTube.
EEI is the association that represents all U.S.
investor-owned electric companies. Our members provide electricity
for nearly 250 million Americans, and operate in all 50 states and
the District of Columbia. As a whole, the electric power industry
supports more than 7 million jobs in communities across the United
States. In addition to our U.S. members, EEI has more than 70
international electric companies, with operations in more than 90
countries, as International Members, and hundreds of industry
suppliers and related organizations as Associate Members.
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