City Water, Light and Power (CWLP) commercial electricity rates in Illinois

• Average commercial price, 202514.48¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs Illinois average+11%state commercial average 13.10¢
• Commercial customers11,5054th largest of 21 in Illinois
• Average use6,334 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$917a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+6.9%from 13.54¢ per kWh
• Outages71 mina year per customer · US average 124

City Water, Light and Power (CWLP) is a municipal utility serving 1 county in Illinois. Among the 21 Illinois utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 4th largest, with about 1.8% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as City of Springfield.

City Water, Light and Power commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 City Water, Light and Power billed its commercial customers an average of 13.54¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 14.48¢, so it rose 6.9% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in Illinois rose 45% over the same period. The latest year, 2025, is the highest of the 11 on record here. Between 2024 and 2025 it rose 9.2%.

Average use and average bill are the utility’s commercial sales and revenue divided by its commercial customers and by twelve. The bill is an all-in figure: energy, delivery, demand and fixed charges together. A few very large customers pull both averages up, so most businesses use and pay less than the average.

Residential, commercial and industrial prices at City Water, Light and Power

In 2025 the average commercial price at City Water, Light and Power was 11% above the residential figure. Larger customers take power at a higher voltage and use it more steadily, so at most utilities the average falls from residential to commercial to industrial. Which class an account falls in is the utility’s decision, and the line between commercial and industrial is drawn differently from one utility to the next.

How City Water, Light and Power’s commercial rates are set

City Water, Light and Power is owned by the community it serves. Its rates are set locally, by the city council or a utility board, and in most states the state commission does not set them. A commercial account is billed on a rate schedule, chosen by the size of the account and the voltage it takes power at, and a schedule usually combines a fixed monthly charge, a charge per kWh and, above a certain size, a demand charge on the highest rate of draw in the month. The schedule code is printed on the bill. What a business in Illinois can and cannot choose is on the Illinois page.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at City Water, Light and Power

EIA counts 8,699 commercial meters at City Water, Light and Power in 2025 and reports no advanced (AMI) meters among them. Of those, 8,699 are automated-reading (AMR) meters, which send a reading to the utility for billing only. Without an advanced meter a business generally has no interval data, so its peak demand is read from the meter’s own register.

EIA records 90 commercial net-metered generating systems at City Water, Light and Power in 2025, with 6.86 MW of capacity between them: about 7.8 for every 1,000 commercial customers. Net metering credits a customer for power its own system sends to the grid; the terms are in the utility’s tariff.

How reliable is City Water, Light and Power’s electric service?

City Water, Light and Power customers went without power for an average of 71 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 0.79 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. This utility reports on a different measurement standard, so the comparison is only approximate. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where City Water, Light and Power serves

EIA records City Water, Light and Power serving customers in 1 Illinois county: Sangamon. A county can be shared between utilities, so this does not tell you who serves a given address. The utility that serves an address is the one named on its bill.

EIA lists MISO as its balancing authority. MISO is one of the organised wholesale markets, which run the grid and the wholesale power market across their area.

Other utilities in Illinois

The average each billed its commercial customers in 2025. The Illinois page has the state’s own figures and every utility with 500 or more commercial customers.

• ComEd (15.13¢)
• Ameren Illinois (14.60¢)
• MidAmerican Energy (7.49¢)

What these figures can and cannot tell you

• They are averages over every commercial customer. A utility whose commercial customers are mostly large averages fewer cents per kWh than one serving mostly small shops, so a lower figure can mean larger customers and not a lower rate.
• They are not a rate schedule. None of these figures is a charge printed in City Water, Light and Power’s tariff, and nothing here works out a bill from one. The tariff index lists the utilities whose filed schedules are quoted on this site.
• They are annual and final. EIA publishes utility figures once a year. The Illinois page carries the state’s trailing 12 months, which is more recent and still preliminary.

For one building, the cost estimator gives a range by building type, size and state, and price by utility sets every utility side by side. Commercial vs residential vs industrial compares the classes in every state.

Data: every year of these figures, for this utility and every other with a page, is in one CSV, free to use with credit to the U.S. Energy Information Administration and this site. To cite this page: City Water, Light and Power commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about City Water, Light and Power

What is the average commercial electricity rate at City Water, Light and Power?

City Water, Light and Power billed its commercial customers in Illinois an average of 14.48¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 11% above the Illinois commercial average of 13.10¢. It is the utility’s commercial revenue divided by its commercial sales, so it describes the whole class and is not the rate on any one schedule.

How much is the average commercial electric bill at City Water, Light and Power?

About $917 a month in 2025, on average use of about 6,334 kWh a month. That is City Water, Light and Power’s commercial revenue divided by its 11,505 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have City Water, Light and Power’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average City Water, Light and Power billed commercial customers rose 6.9% between 2015 and 2025, from 13.54¢ to 14.48¢ per kWh. The Illinois commercial average rose 45% over the same period.

How reliable is City Water, Light and Power’s electric service?

City Water, Light and Power customers averaged 71 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Is this the rate my business will pay City Water, Light and Power?

No. It is an average over every commercial customer, from a corner shop to a campus. What one business pays depends on its rate schedule, how much it uses and how hard it draws at its peak. The schedule code is printed on the bill, and the schedule itself is in City Water, Light and Power’s tariff.