net metering; demand side management/energy efficiency; leases, easements and energy contract provisions; Ohio Power Siting Board jurisdiction; local zoning ...
Introduction to Advancing Ohio Green Energy with SB 310 Faye Spratley: Summer 2014, GEO News Magazine URL: www.greenenergyohio.org/page.cfm?pageID=3935 Introduces SB 310, and what it means for Ohio’s green energy industry. Ohio’s RPS has produced investments in the billions, new jobs in the thousands, and lower electric bills for Ohio customers, but SB 310 will freeze everything. Renewable Energy Hot Topics: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Bill Spratley: Summer 2014, GEO News Magazine URL: www.greenenergyohio.org/page.cfm?pageID=3919 In the wake of the Ohio state government enacting SB 310 and HB 483 outlines the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of what this meant for Ohio’s RPS. While the progress made leading up to these pieces of legislation created momentum for the green energy movement, there was still a risk for higher electric bills, less electricity from solar and wind, reduced energy efficiency, and an uncertainty about future job creating for clean energy businesses. What’s the Future of Clean Energy in Ohio after SB 310? Mark Shanahan: Summer 2014, GEO News Magazine URL: www.greenenergyohio.org/page.cfm?pageID=3936 Outlines the impact that SB 310 will have on clean energy in Ohio. The rhetoric of SB 310 says it is only a “freeze”, the changes in law are permanent. Together we have it in our power to turn Ohio back to the future and build a clean and healthy economy. Tools Left in Ohio’s Green Energy Toolkit after SB 310 Dale Arnold: Summer 2014, GEO News Magazine URL: www.greenenergyohio.org/page.cfm?pageID=3937 Offers tools that remain in Ohio’s Green Energy Toolkit after SB 310 including: on-site generation; customer friendly interconnection; net metering; demand side management/energy efficiency; leases, easements and energy contract provisions; Ohio Power Siting Board jurisdiction; local zoning; tax/finance, landowner and community groups; community aggregation; and Federal EPA carbon reduction guidelines.
Energy Efficiency Outlook after SB 310 John Seryak: Summer 2014, GEO News Magazine URL: www.greenenergyohio.org/page.cfm?pageID=3939 Discusses how SB 310 will lead to less efficiency and higher overall electricity bills for Ohio ratepayers. Leveraging Our Strengths with Visions & New Strategies Steve Melink: Summer 2014, GEO News Magazine URL: www.greenenergyohio.org/page.cfm?pageID=3940 In the wake of SB 310 passing, offers strategies to keep Ohio’s renewable energy vision alive, including: actively supporting EPA regulations to limit carbon pollution at the state level, initiate community aggregation programs with green power options, using the civic duty of voting, exploring alternative financing mechanisms for energy efficiency and renewable energy, help educate the ‘study committee’ that will recommend changes to RPS after the two year freeze, and be willing to create a better world for future generations outside of Ohio. Affordable Electricity for Ohio Consumers Scott Gerfen: Summer 2014, GEO News Magazine URL: www.greenenergyohio.org/page.cfm?pageID=3941 Discusses SB 310’s Energy Mandates Study Comm., stating that the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel looks forward to participating in the process of the Study Comm. and the opportunity to consider ways that Ohio’s 2008 energy standards benefit Ohio’s utility consumers. Reclaiming Ohio’s Clean Energy Future Trish Demeter: Summer 2014, GEO News Magazine URL: www.greenenergyohio.org/page.cfm?pageID=3942 Contends that “we must continue pushing policymakers to make better choices that build rather than dismantle Ohio’s renewable and efficiency industries. We have 2 opportunities before us in the study committee and in the state’s plan to reduce carbon pollution.” Reinvigorating Ohio’s Clean Energy Standards Could Save $5B by 2030. Here’s How. Dick Munson: Fall 2016, GEO News Magazine URL: www.greenenergyoh.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/02_ Reinvigorating-Ohios-Clean-Energy-Standards.pdf Proposed clean energy standards in Ohio could save $5 billion by 2030. Ohio's RPS freeze has lost millions of dollars in energy investment and jobs, lagging behind nearly every other state in percentage of renewable energy generated. However, a report from Environmental Defense Fund and The Nature Conservancy published a report titled Grounds for Optimism: Options for Empowering Ohio’s Energy Market outlines 3 possible paths forward: Accelerated Efficiency case, and Intermediate Pathway, and an Expanded Renewables case. Additionally, Gov Kasich came out in favor of the RPS, saying “If you try to kill the standards […], I’ll veto the bill and we’ll go to the higher standards. I’m committed to it.”
The American Wind Energy Association Weighs in on SB 310 & HB 483 Christy Omohundro: Summer 2014, GEO News Magazine URL: www.greenenergyohio.org/page.cfm?pageID=3938 Discusses the fallout of SB 310 and HB 483. By signing the 2-year The Big Picture of Energy Efficiency in Ohio freeze on Ohio’s renewable energy standard, as well as a hindering Belinda Kenley: Winter 2017, GEO News Magazine setback standard for new wind farms, Gov. John Kasich risks URL: www.greenenergyoh.org/wp-content/uploads/13-25_Ohioabandoning $2.5 billion in current wind energy projects. SB 310 will Guide-to-Energy-Efficiency.pdf now begin driving developers and manufactures to neighboring states. “We ask Ohio’s legislators to stand up for those of us in the clean HB 483 will almost triple the required distance for a wind turbine to energy industry and oppose this damaging effort to redraft energy be built in relation to the nearest property line. These decisions came efficiency and renewable energy standards. We also ask that Ohio in the wake of the EPA rules calling for more low-carbon electricity legislators support all state and federal efforts to level the economic sources. playing field by eliminating annual subsidies to the fossil fuel industry which, by conservative estimates, currently total $775 billion globally each year.” - Matt Young & Faye Spratley, GEO Volunteers www.GreenEnergyOhio.org
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A Bi-Partisan Living Legacy! Faye Spratley: Fall 2013, GEO News Magazine URL: www.greenenergyohio.org/page.cfm?pageID=3709 Offers praise to Ohio’s bi-partisan support for advancing Ohio’s energy industry. In 2012, Gov. John Kasich announced his 21st Century Energy Policy, which encompassed Energy Efficiency to “save resources” and Renewables “for a balanced energy portfolio.” Ohio U.S. Senator Rob Portman delivered remarks to the Senate floor highlighting his bipartisan Energy Savings and Competitiveness Act.
