TOLEDO — “One of the bigger political stories getting lost in the shuffle during this presidential election is the fate of Ohio’s mandates on energy efficiency and renewables.
It’s huge because it could not only impact energy markets for solar power and wind power, but also the nation’s climate and landscape.
The Ohio General Assembly is trying to decide what to do after the state’s two-year freeze on such mandates expires at the end of this year.
Ohio – the nation’s fourth-largest energy user – is a pivotal state on this issue.
It remains the only state that went forward with a freeze, a grand experiment that yielded mixed results.
Gov. John Kasich went through with it, despite opposition from many businesses that saw value in promoting renewable energy as a way of generating jobs.
Although the Kasich administration now says the freeze served its purpose and should expire, that has done little to dissuade conservatives who want to do anything from modifying rules to making the freeze permanent.”
— Tom Henry, Toledo Blade
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