Oregon City Council recently approved a customer supply agreement for the provision of natural gas to residential and small commercial customers as part of the Northwest Ohio Aggregation Coalition (NOAC).
The city has been a Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) certified governmental aggregator since 2000 and has offered various programs to residential and small commercial users over the years.
The city’s membership in NOAC, along with several neighboring communities, has resulted in an estimated savings to all NOAC residential and small commercial participants of $1.1 million on the current contract.
“For many years, Oregon has been part of an aggregation coalition for both natural gas and electricity,”said Administrator Mike Beazley at a meeting on Monday.“We feel very good about how that has worked for our residents. It is one of the very few things that government can do that actually puts money in our residents’pockets. We literally save tens of millions of dollars for the regional population through this partnership.”
NOAC’s current agreement with Volunteer Energy expires in May 2021. NOAC’s energy consultant, Palmer Energy, recently issued a Request For Proposals (RFP) for residential and small commercial customers to 11 suppliers. NOAC received five proposals for the provision of lower-cost natural gas to residential and small commercial customers in Oregon.
