The President of a Village with an opt-out municipal electric aggregation has conceded that the aggregation amounts to a, "gamble", with the cost of customers' electricity supply, the Aurora (IL) Beacon-News reports (via the Chicago Tribune)

Noting that while the aggregation rate will be locked in, versus a ComEd rate that will change in the fall, North Aurora Village President Dale Berman stated, "It depends on who you want to gamble with," the Beacon-News reports

North Aurora elected to take that gamble and maintain its municipal aggregation, which is part of the Northern Illinois Municipal Electric Collaborative

Isn't a major premise of opt-out municipal aggregations that individual residential customers are not sophisticated enough to wade through the myriad of opportunities for savings in the retail market, and an "expert", in the form of a local government, is needed to bring such savings to customers. If all a municipal aggregation is doing is rolling the dice, what value does it offer customers

Is it really good public policy to have local governments "gambling" with customers' electricity supply costs on an opt-out basis?

See the the Aurora (IL) Beacon-News for the story