COLUMBUS — “Now a new bill, introduced by Sen. Bill Seitz, is set to come in the wake of the Energy Mandates Study Committee’s indefinite-freeze recommendation. As a sort of compromise, the bill gives a three-year concrete end date for the freeze.
Seitz last week sent a draft of the bill to environmentalists, utilities, industrial groups and the Ohio Senate and House of Representatives. The Republican senator from Cincinnati wanted to give the stakeholders a chance to comment before introducing it.
…Seitz and others on the energy committee say questions surrounding the federal Clean Power Plan necessitate a continued freeze on the state’s energy standards, which would have required utilities to generate 12.5 percent of their power using renewable energy by 2025. The standards also include mandates for energy efficiency use. Ohio and other states are challenging the legality of the Clean Power Plan’s regulation of carbon dioxide emissions, and in February the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay of the plan.”
— Tom Knox, Columbus Business First
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