Why are Illinois municipalities putting fees ahead of their residents?
If your electric bill is too high, you might want to call City Hall and opt OUT of their aggregation offer.
Municipal aggregation in Illinois allowed municipalities to enter into deals with energy marketers to serve as their residents power supplier replacing COMED or other competitive energy marketers. The concept was that municipal aggregation would lower costs; the reality was that municipalities saw it as a way of increasing tax payments. See previous article: http://realgyenergyservices.com/chicago-electric-bills-rise-18-june/
The result: under municipal aggregation residents have paid about 8% more than they would have under COMED!
That is: you paid more than the local Utility, however, the municipalities earned more in fees.
During the same time; Realgy customers paid about 5% LESS THAN COMED.
Competition works in energy like everything else. However, you must pick an energy supplier directly and not one that serves the municipality in collecting fees.
Realgy Energy Services is a registered Retail Energy Marketer in the states of Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. We offer Service Plans that will provide electric and natural gas at wholesale pricing direct to customers without any utility markup. Our Service Plans work with the local utility to provide seamless service and annual energy savings. Service Plans include Guaranteed SavingsTM, ManagedPriceTM, ManagedGreenTM and Index, Fixed pricing.
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