Businesses can shop around for power now

In the deregulated utility market, commercial customers can now shop around for power.

The Illinois Commerce Commission lists more than a dozen suppliers who sell to nonresidential customers. Businesses began switching from Ameren and Exelon, parent company to Commonwealth Edison, in December when they no longer had to pay a transition fee to leave a public utility, ICC spokeswoman Beth Bosch said.

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