KENTON — “In another move likely to raise the profile of Ohio’s wind industry, tech giant Amazon Web Services, Inc., an Amazon.com company, announced plans recently for a $300 million wind farm in Hardin County to complement another major wind farm it has under construction in nearby Paulding County.
The two wind farms are to help generate power for Amazon data centers in Ohio and Virginia.
The announcement comes as conservatives in the Ohio General Assembly are debating this fall whether they want to try extending or possibly making permanent a two-year freeze on renewable energy mandates legislators passed a few years ago, establishing benchmarks for utilities to invest in wind and solar power and other forms of clean energy.
The Kasich administration has said it will not support a continued freeze, the nation’s first and one that critics claim have driven away jobs. But it has left open the possibility of softening rules in place.”
— Tom Henry, Toledo Blade
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