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Illinois: official power outage sources
The Illinois Commerce Commission oversees four investor-owned electric utilities: ComEd, Ameren Illinois, MidAmerican Energy and Mt. Carmel Public Utility. About 25 electric cooperatives and dozens of city utilities, such as Springfield's City Water, Light and Power, serve other areas. If you buy power from a competitive supplier, your local wires utility still handles outages.
Outages in Illinois right now
Not shown on this site. Power Grid Watch does not have live outage information for Illinois. That does not mean there are no outages. Use the official links below to check and to report.
If your power is out
- Stay away from downed lines and anything touching them. Call 911.
- Report it to your own utility. The name and outage phone number are on your electric bill. Do not assume a neighbor has reported it.
- Check your utility's outage page for the area affected and any restoration estimate. Only your utility can give that estimate.
Utility outage pages
Each link covers only that utility's own customers. If your provider is not listed here, use the directories in the next section.
- ComEd Outage page comed.com
- Ameren Illinois Outage page Choose Illinois; the same page also serves Ameren Missouri. ameren.com
- MidAmerican Energy Outage page midamericanenergy.com
- City Water, Light and Power (Springfield) Outage page Report outages not shown on the map at 217-789-2121. cwlp.com
Official state sources
Use these to find out which utility serves an address, to reach the regulator, and to follow state emergency information.
- Illinois Commerce Commission: electric utilities Regulator icc.illinois.gov
- Association of Illinois Electric Cooperatives: outages and safety Provider directory Links to individual cooperatives. Its statewide map may not include every cooperative. aiec.coop
- Ready Illinois: power outages Emergency management ready.illinois.gov
- Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security: preparedness Emergency management iemaohs.illinois.gov
- National Weather Service Weather alerts Enter your town or ZIP code for current watches and warnings. A weather warning is not an outage prediction. weather.gov
Good to know in Illinois
- Cooperative and city utility customers should check with their own provider; ComEd's and Ameren's maps do not cover them.
- A competitive electricity supplier does not handle outages; contact the utility that delivers your power.
- Some cooperatives based in Wisconsin serve parts of northern Illinois.
- University of Illinois campus buildings have their own energy alerts page, separate from the local utility.
The wider grid
Regional grid organizations and balancing areas that cover all or part of Illinois: PJM; MISO. They balance supply and demand on the high-voltage system. Their alerts describe the regional system, not an outage on your street. How the pieces fit together
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