The Village of Minster in northwest Ohio’s Auglaize County is the home of the only large solar field tied to a huge lithium ion battery system used to stabilize the town’s distribution system and the high-voltage grid. All photos courtesy of David Dwyer, American Renewable Energy @ Power.
BOWLING GREEN — “Solar energy systems are proliferating across Ohio — growing by more than 23 percent in just the last year, an in-depth analysis of state records reveals.
The growth has come despite a law passed by Ohio lawmakers last year freezing state mandates for two years that since 2009 had required power companies to annually increase the percentage of solar- and wind-generated power they sold.
And significantly, most of Ohio’s 1,961 solar systems registered with state regulators as of May 30 were not small and not on residential roof tops, the analysis done by Green Energy Ohio has found.”
— John Funk, Cleveland Plain Dealer
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