ComEd Hourly Pricing

ComEd Hourly Pricing lets a residential customer pay the real hourly market price for the energy half of their bill, instead of the flat rate everyone else pays. ComEd passes the wholesale price through without a markup, so the rate you pay changes every hour of every day.

That is the whole idea, and also the whole catch. If your usage lands in cheap hours, you can pay less than the flat rate. If it lands in expensive ones, you can pay more. So the honest question is never "is hourly pricing good," it is "would it have saved me," and the only place that answer lives is in your own usage.

The essays below explain how the program actually works, what decides whether it pays off for a given home, and how you would reconstruct the answer from your own data rather than a generic promise. We do not sell energy and we take no commission.

6 articlesUpdated JUL 12 2026

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01How ComEd Hourly Pricing Prices Work: Real-Time, Day-Ahead, and the Capacity ChargeComEd Hourly Pricing bills you on the real-time hourly market price, shows you a day-ahead price to plan with, and adds a summer capacity charge. Here is what each price is and which one you actually pay.Read 02ComEd Hourly Pricing Live: The Real-Time Price Right NowThe live ComEd Hourly Pricing rate, right now, plotted over the last 24 hours from ComEd's public feed. See the current price, the day's high, low, and average, and what actually decides whether hourly pricing pays off for your home.Read 03Why Summer Afternoons Decide Your ComEd Hourly Pricing BillOn ComEd Hourly Pricing, hot summer weekday afternoons are when prices spike and when the new capacity charge is set. Here is why 2 to 6 p.m. in summer carries more weight than the rest of the year combined.Read 04ComEd Hourly Pricing vs the Flat Rate: Which Homes Actually SaveComEd Hourly Pricing can beat the flat rate for some homes and lose to it for others. The difference is not the rate, it is the shape of when you use power. Here is which homes tend to land on each side.Read 05Is ComEd Hourly Pricing Worth It? What Actually Decides ItWhether ComEd Hourly Pricing saves you money is not a general question. It depends on when your home uses power. Here is how the program works and what actually decides it, without the sales pitch.Read 06What Is ComEd Real-Time Pricing (RRTP)? It Is the Same Program as Hourly PricingComEd Real-Time Pricing, or RRTP, is the formal name for the same program ComEd markets as Hourly Pricing. Here is what it is, why it has two names, and how the real-time rate actually works.Read