Municipalities with existing municipal aggregation programs are listed here.
Interested in joining an existing municipal aggregation program?
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MILLION$ SAVED!
THOUSANDS PROTECTED.
Since 2011, voters from over 150 municipalities in Illinois voted and authorized their local governments to develop and launch a municipal aggregation collectively known as the Central & Southern Illinois Municipal Aggregation program. The program combines, or aggregates, all eligible Ameren Illinois or Commonwealth Edison electricity accounts within their respective jurisdictional boundaries to create large buying groups of residential and small business electricity accounts. Aggregation generates economies of scale and creates tremendous buying power with Alternative Retail Energy Suppliers (ARES), resulting in the ability for municipalities to offer lower, stable electricity supply rates for participating residents and small businesses. This type of bulk-purchasing is very similar to the ways in which big-box stores operate – buy in large volumes and pass the associated savings on to customers. Is your community participating?
Program Details
BENEFITS
- Program supply rates remain fixed* and will not change over the duration of the term selected by your municipality (typically 12 to 36 months). Importantly, this provides protection against volatile electricity prices.
- You will be automatically enrolled in the program but may opt out of the program without penalty prior to launch. You may also leave the program at anytime without penalty.
- Your municipal aggregation program was passed by public referendum and is operated under the due diligence of your municipality.
FEATURES
- Your utility will continue to deliver your electricity with the same quality of service. You will only receive one bill from Ameren or Commonwealth Edison.
- By law, only small businesses that use 15,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) or less are eligible to participate.
- You may still participate in your utility’s Budget Billing program.
*Some supply contracts do not initially fix “capacity”, a component of your energy supply that represents the maximum amount of energy that a generator can produce and have on hand in order to reduce the chance of outages. Capacity prices are determined by auction. Locking in rates before they are published adds unnecessary risk, so it is typically considered more prudent to wait until auction results are finalized.