SPRING VALLEY — Spring Valley residents should have started seeing savings on their electric bills.

Spring Valley was one of four Bureau County communities approving referendums last spring, which gave village officials the authority to arrange for an electric aggregation program to supply electricity for residents and small commercial retail customers who have not opted out of the program.

According to the city and its consultant, Rock River Energy Services, Spring Valley had 2,509 residential and small commercial electric accounts. Of that number, 225 accounts had already switched to another retail electric supplier, and were not eligible to be automatically enrolled in the community program with Homefield Energy.