Kasich has agreed to let the freeze expire. Photo credit: Associated Press
AUSTIN, TX — “Gov. John Kasich is reiterating that he’ll veto bills that try to kill the state’s renewable energy standards.
At the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Kasich was asked about Ohio’s low ranking for carbon emissions. His defense of the state’s record included remarks on efforts to roll back renewable mandates. He said the existing standards requiring electric utilities to eventually have renewable energy sources such as wind and solar account for 12.5 percent of their output are unrealistic.
To that end he signed the 2014 bill freezing the standards until the end of 2016.
‘But if you try to kill the standards, whether it has to do with the renewables or whether it has to do with the issue of saving energy, I’ll veto the bill and we’ll go to the higher standards,’ he said Friday. ‘So you know, I’m committed to it.'”
— Tom Knox, Columbus Business First
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