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lllinois' Unicom wants to sell electricity in Michigan.

Crain's Detroit Business, November, 2000 by Lane, Amy

LANSING - Illinois' Unicom Energy Inc. has a natural-gas foothold in Michigan. Now it wants to supply electricity. The company is Michigan's latest licensed alternate electricity supplier, a prelude to competing with Michigan's home utilities such as Detroit Edison Co. and Consumers Energy Co.

The subsidiary of Chicago-based Unicom Corp. has about 1,000 natural-gas customers in Consumers' and Michigan Consolidated Gas Co.'s territories and wants to supply electricity to commercial and industrial businesses as Michigan customer choice unfolds. But it will do so under a new name. The Oct. 19 federal approval of a merger between parent Unicom Corp. and Philadelphia-based PECO Energy Co. has created Exelon Corp. (NYSE: EXC). The company is one of the nation's...

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