Is Your
Utility Bill High?
Welcome to Ohio’s Community Aggregation Initiative
Learn how we helped the following townships, cities and villages in Ohio
save on their utility bills.
Salem Township saved
$39.80 per 1000/kWh
on their electric bills
with AES
Sugar Creek Township saved
$49.45 per 1000/kWh
on their electric bills with
Ohio Edison
City of Lima saved
$49.20 per 1000/kWh
on their electric bills
with AEP
*Savings are based on June 2023 differential between the price to compare and community rate.
Residents must vote to allow the community to contract for a certified generation supplier on their behalf.
What you need to know about
the Aggregation Program in Ohio.
We are pleased to announce that your community and Trebel LLC is providing you with an opportunity to join other citizens to gain “buying power” on your electric and gas rates. At your general or primary election, your community could have the issue of electric and gas aggregation. By voting FOR electric and gas aggregation, you will allow your locally elected officials to purchase electric or gas generation at a discounted rate for your community. This letter will provide answers to questions most frequently asked by residents. To ask additional questions, a town hall meeting would be set up for the residents. We have the most comprehensive community education program in the market. A representative from the communities energy consultant, Trebel, will be present to answer questions.
Aggregation = More Choice
Approval by voters provides more choice to decide what’s best for your electric and gas needs.
Aggregation programs simply give you more choices when it comes to your utilities. Participation is completely voluntary and there are no contracts or added fees.
Simple as that. Whether you opt-in or opt-out, your service continues as usual. No change.
Voting for aggregation does not mean you have to participate. If you have already chosen an alternate supplier and aggregation is approved by the voters you will stay with your chosen supplier. You will have the option to join the aggregation program when you decide it’s best. It’s your choice.
What you need to know about
the Aggregation Program.
Community aggregation is an easy and effective way for a large group of consumers to save money on their energy bills. Under community aggregation, local officials bring citizens together to gain group buying power for the purchase of competitively priced electricity or natural gas from a retail generation supplier certified by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
Residents must vote to allow the community to contract for a certified generation supplier on their behalf.
Example Question: “Shall the community have the authority to aggregate the retail electric loads located in the community and for that purpose, enter into service agreements to facilitate for those loads the sale and purchase of electricity, such aggregation to occur automatically except where any person elects to opt out?”
First, the community aggregation issue must be placed before a community vote at your general or primary election. Once passed, all eligible residents and small businesses in the community will be enrolled and will begin receiving the discounted generation pricing under the program. Residents do not need to do anything to join the program. However, anyone who does not want to participate in the program can easily opt out by returning a form, which will be mailed to all eligible members.
“Opt out” means that you can decide not to participate in your community’s governmental aggregation program. By returning the opt-out form, by the opt-out deadline you will not be enrolled as an electric or natural gas generation customer with your community’s competitive generation supplier, and you will not receive the negotiated community rate.
Community aggregation is designed so it is easy for residents to participate. So, if you do not return the opt- out form postmarked by the due date, you will be included in the community’s community aggregation program and will begin receiving competitively priced electricity or natural gas from the community’s competitive generation supplier.
You can leave the program at any other time for any reason with no cancellation fee from the supplier.
You can stay with your current utility who will place you with a supplier of their choice, and will continue to supply your electricity or natural gas as it always has, or you can shop for an alternative generation supplier.
Voting for aggregation does not mean you have to participate. If you have already chosen an alternate supplier and aggregation is approved by the voters you will stay with your chosen supplier and you will not be sent an Opt-out letter. Again, since you are currently in a contract we simply remove you from the program at the beginning. You will have the option to join the aggregation program when you decide its best, the choice is yours.
Your local electric utility will be responsible for the delivery of power to your home or business. Since your local electric utility still owns the wires and poles that deliver power to you, it will continue to read your meter and restore power after an outage. The aggregation program will have no impact upon the reliability of service you receive. The same goes for natural gas.
You will receive one bill from the utility that contains your charges for distribution and maintenance service from the utility as well as the new supplier charges for generation. Depending on the Supplier chosen for your program you can remain on budget billing. However not all Suppliers offer budget billing at this time. If a supplier is chosen that does not offer budget billing then your total charges with the new supplier will fluctuate from month to month according to your usage. You can continue to budget the utilities portion of the bill.
Residents must vote to allow the community to contract for a certified generation supplier on their behalf.
What you need to know about
the Aggregation Program in Ohio.
Trebel is a premier consultant broker located in Ohio and runs over 170 combined electric and natural gas programs.
