Politics & Government

Letter: Mayors Support Electric Aggregation Measure

Referendum will appear on March 20 primary ballot.

On March 20, the residents of our communities will have the opportunity to vote on a referendum allowing their municipality to aggregate, or bundle, their electricity to seek a lower price. 

In an aggregation program the electricity is still delivered by ComEd but is supplied by a licensed alternative supplier. ComEd will still be responsible for billing, maintenance and any outage response. 

This program has already been successful in Crest Hill, New Lenox and 17 other Illinois communities. The residents in those communities are seeing savings of 10 to 20 percent on their total electric bill.  

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Our communities are working together to combine the purchasing power of each of our individual communities into one larger buying group. We believe that by working together we can obtain a better electricity supply rate than any one of our communities going out on their own individually. 

We encourage all of our residents to learn more about electrical aggregation and the details of how this program would work at www.willelectricaggregation.org before heading to the polls. If you do not want to choose a partisan ballot you can request a non-partisan referendum only ballot to vote on this important issue.    

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Mayor Roger Claar, Village of Bolingbrook

Mayor Bill Rulien, City of Braidwood

Mayor Joe Cook, Village of Channahon

Mayor Neal Nelson, City of Coal City

Mayor Michael Einhorn, Village of Crete

Mayor Terry Kernc, Village of Diamond

Mayor Martin Tully, Village of Downers Grove

Mayor William Offerman, Village of Elwood

Mayor Jim Daley, Villeage of Homer Glen

Mayor Tom Giarrante, City of Joliet

Mayor Brian Reaves, Village of Lemont

Mayor Dev Trivedi, City of Lockport

Mayor Pat Brennan, Village of Minooka

Mayor Daniel Tovo, Village of Monee

Mayor Michael Collins, Village of Plainfield

Mayor Henry Berry, Village of Rockdale

Mayor John Noak, Village of Romeoville

Mayor Richard Chapman, Village of Shorewood

Mayor Marty Orr, City of Wilmington

Mayor William Murphy, Village of Woodridge


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