COLUMBUS — “The fate of Ohio’s green energy mandates over the next two years is now in the hands of Gov. John Kasich.
Ohio lawmakers ignored threats of the governor’s veto and approved a bill overnight that would allow power companies to ignore the rules for the next two years requiring them to provide customers with increasing percentages of green energy.
The mandates have been frozen for two years at 2014 levels, and opponents have argued that now making compliance voluntary for another two years will have the same impact on green development as another freeze. It will slow it down.
…Kasich has 10 working days to use his veto pen before the legislation automatically becomes law.
The bill also makes it easier for utilities to comply with energy efficiency mandates by allowing them to count improvements to their power plants and wires when figuring how much power has been saved by energy efficiency.”
— John Funk, Cleveland Plain Dealer
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