CLEVELAND —”Whether buying or selling, businesses like ours need stable rules to invest with confidence. But Ohio’s uncertain energy policy over the last two years has undermined investment in advanced-energy industry companies and products in the state. That’s costing us all money.
Since 2009, technological improvements in renewable energy have reduced the price of wind by 60 percent and solar by 80 percent.
We have seen firsthand how stable, forward-thinking energy policy can impact long-term growth.
Ohio ratepayers would also benefit, to the tune of $3 billion in savings over the next 15 years, from more wind power, according to a May report by The Wind Energy Foundation using baseline energy costs from the National Renewable Energy Lab.
Making more efficient use of energy is another important way Ohio’s energy policy can help. The energy-efficiency standards that are now frozen saved Ohio consumers and businesses more than $1 billion since 2008.
All this adds up to advanced-energy value that contributes to economic prosperity, but Ohio is missing out.
Growing companies and satisfied customers – that’s what advanced energy means for us, and that’s what it means for our state. Ohio’s need for innovative advanced-energy technology is more important than ever.”
— Alan R. Frasz, resident and principal owner of Dovetail Solar and Wind and Chuck Gile, president of Motocars Honda in Cleveland Heights, guest commentary, Cleveland Plain Dealer
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