Naperville should not be locked into another IMEA contract
The Naperville City Council must vote against renewing the IMEA contract as the city’s electricity provide.
City Councilman Josh McBroom makes the point that the MDR (Member Directed Resource) will enable us to partly outsource our electricity to clean energy sources. This is misleading, at best.
We cannot use an MDR to shave 10% off our peak load without shaving IMEA’s demand as a whole. IMEA members will still be required to purchase their full requirements from IMEA. Naperville could use additional money to develop new energy sources and would be paid the “market price” for those sources, but that might be less than the actual cost to Naperville.
Renewing the contract will obligate Naperville to obtain the same amount of electricity from coal-fired energy plants. We must work to source our electricity from clean energy providers and not commit to continue to support coal burning for another 25 years!
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Barbara Lipkin, Naperville
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