Commonwealth Edison Company proposed that residential and commercial monthly bills display the “price to compare” for accounts of 15,000 kilowatt-hour or less of annual usage, according to an Oct. 15 filing. In July, the commission asked regulated utilities to clearly display the message so that customers can easily find and understand their current electric cost as they consider switching to an alternative retail supplier. The directive came in response to the annual report on the current state of the retail electric choice market issued by the commission’s office of retail market development. The commission said that the number of customers served by alternative suppliers dropped by about six percent since last year, as their average price of supply has increased. This year customers enrolled with alternative suppliers paid $195.3 million, or 24 percent, more than the utility’s price-to-compare charge in 2017. To start including the message on bills starting in December, the company seeks a declaratory ruling, with a final order by Dec. 4, finding that the proposed message is “legitimate consumer education effort” authorized by the commission. Commonwealth Edison is a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation.