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[email protected] SALEM Residents in the city’s gas aggregation program paid more than expected for both February and March after supplier Volunteer Energy increased the locked-in rate without warning. “It was a shock to all of us at city hall,” Mayor John Berlin said. Under the new two-year contract with Volunteer Energy, the city had agreed to a locked-in rate of 41 cents per one hundred cubic feet (Ccf) for the natural gas aggregation program, which allows the city to gain buying power by banding everyone together to buy gas from a certified supplier, such as Volunteer Energy. The new price was to go into effect with the February billing cycle, so when Berlin received his gas bill, he was surprised to see the rate was 49 cents per Ccf. In March, it shot up even higher, to 57 cents per Ccf. He asked city Service/Safety Director Joe Cappuzzello to check with the supplier and with AMPO Inc., who represented the city’s interests in the program. ....