Courtesy of Pexels Suffolk County lawmakers will look in the New Year into creating a digital platform to help town and village governments join and operate pacts to lower energy costs for consumers. Community Choice Aggregation, known as CCA, allows for local governments to seek competitive bids for energy so consumers wouldn’t have to settle for the price set by a utility company. Gordian Raacke heads Renewable Energy Long Island. He said the CCA could also require all or some portion of electricity and gas to come from renewable sources. “It goes beyond just supplying power. CCAs can purchase power from energy suppliers just like the utilities do today. But CCAs could also run local energy efficiency programs and offer bulk purchase programs for solar panels and electric vehicles and things like that,” Raacke said.