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Lincoln Moving Forward With Electric Aggregation Process

The electric aggregation referendum was approved in Logan County on March 20.

Electric aggregation allows the cities and municipalities of Logan County to seek out non-local electricity providers for their residents and businesses. The measure gives residents and businesses the options of going with the provider their respective elected leaders decide to go with, should it not be the local provider, or to stay with their local provider. Lincoln Mayor Keith Snyder explains with the passing of the measure, they are now in the seeking process for those energy rates from the firm they have brought in to seek out those bids.

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The city is moving quickly to get a low rate locked in. Mayor Snyder says electric rates are as low as they have been in recent years, and his hope is for Lincoln residents to start seeing savings as soon as this summer.

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Mayor Snyder says projections shows residents could save up to 10% on their electric bills each month. He says they made no guarantees, but a savings even close to that is certainly a good thing in economic times like these.

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Ameren will continue to provide maintenance on the power lines, the only change will be the provider of the energy coming from those lines.

Mayor Snyder notes they will have community informational meetings to give the public as much information about the process of switching providers and to answer and other questions they may have.

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