Corruption Cases Not Over for Electric Companies in Ohio and Illinois

SUGAR LAND--September 4, 2020--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--It's been a difficult, scandal-ridden summer for two Midwestern electricity companies -- Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) (Chicago, Illinois), a unit of Exelon Corporation (NASDAQ:EXC) (Chicago, Illinois), and Energy Harbor Corporation (Akron, Ohio), the owner of uneconomic nuclear and coal power plants in the Midwest. For more on the scandals, see July 23, 2020, article - Dark Money: Ohio, Illinois Officials Allegedly Raked in Fortunes from Energy Company Bribes.

Within this article: Where the nuclear and fossil-fuel markets in Ohio and Illinois could be headed as these scandals unwind.