The villages of Wilmette and Kenilworth recently locked in the lowest energy rate among North Shore communities for its residents and small businesses that participate in the electricity aggregation program.

The villages, which joined forces to form the Lake Shore Power Alliance, have selected mc² to supply electricity for the aggregation program.

For Wilmette residents, the primary program will offer the lowest price option, at 4.035 cents per kilowatt-hour, which includes the statuary minimum of 7 percent renewable energy. Residents also have the option of purchasing 100 percent renewable energy at 4.11 cents per kilowatt-hour, or about $10 more per year than the primary program.  

A Patch reader was not pleased with the village's decision to select the lowest price option and not set the Individual Choice Green Power Program as the primary program village-wide.

"Unfortunately, rarely more than 3 percent of the population takes advantage of this individual choice plan," Jan Barshis wrote in a Letter to the Editor.