Batavia City Council approves revised energy policy

Batavia is getting an updated energy policy meant to guide how the city will provide electricity to residents in the future, after the City Council OK’d a revised version of it at its meeting on Tuesday.

The policy is meant to address considerations like whether the city should own its power generation assets or contract for them, whether the city should get its power locally, and how and if Batavia wants to diversify the sources it gets its power from, according to past reporting. Among the major concerns discussed by the council for the policy were reliability, cost and sustainability.

Batavia has its own municipal electric utility, according to past reporting. The Batavia Municipal Electric Utility gets its energy via a power sales agreement with the Northern Illinois Municipal Powe