Ohio State Senator Kris Jordan (R-Powell) introduced Senate Bill 216 which would repeal Ohio’s renewable portfolio standard ("RPS"). The RPS requires that the state’s electric utilities provide 25% of their retail energy supply from advanced and renewable energy sources such as clean coal, wind, and solar energy by 2025.
Ohio enacted the RPS in 2009.
"If you build it they will come…" is the old saying from the movie Field of Dreams. It also could be used to sum up Ohio’s energy policy toward growing green jobs.
Policymakers believed using grant funds and passage of a renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS) would kick start demand for renewable energy in the State. If demand for solar
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Governor John Kasich has not revealed his true feeling regarding the Renewable Energy Portfolio (called the Advanced Energy Portfolio Standard in Ohio) which mandates a certain percentage of electricity should be generated from renewable sources like solar, wind, biomass and others. Ohio’s RPS was instituted as part of Governor Strickland’s major energy legislation- S.B. 221.
While the Governor has not
With about ten days until election day races around the country are getting more heated. Ohio’s race for Governor is a study in contrasts on many issues. Energy policy is certainly one of them.
Governor Strickland has pushed the development of advanced energy projects aggressively during his tenure. Through passage of Senate Bill 221, he created the states
There is a very good article in the Akron Beacon Journal discussing the debate over the use of biomass as a replacement for coal. Here is an excerpt from the beginning of the article (click here for full biomass article):
Burning Ohio trees at Burger sets fire to debate
Opponents are hot that
Ohio is using federal stimulus money to establish a new grant opportunity in the renewable energy area. The Ohio Department of Development has released an RFP soliciting proposals with a total of $10 million in available funding.
Minimum award is $500,000 and maximum is $1 million.
The grant program is looking for projects that convert feedstocks such as
Ohio’s best hope for reducing its overwhelming dependence on coal for electricity generation is biomass. While wind and solar have significant benefits, it is unquestioned that current technology does not allow these renewable sources to be forms of base-load power generation.
Biomass does have that potential in Ohio, as is evidenced by the recent announcements
On April 15, 2009 the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio finally adopted the long awaited rules that will govern Ohio’s energy efficiency requirements and its Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (AEPS). Ohio was one of the last states to have adopted a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS)- more broadly defined as a AEPS in Ohio. However, as
So you are about to deploy the first commercial version of your new technology. Or you are about to select your site for a new renewable or advanced energy project. In ramping up your cleantech project, everything has looked great in small scale trial tests. You have had great result and are excited to bring this
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On August 20, 2008, the Public Utility Commission of Ohio (PUCO) put forth proposed rules governing alternative and renewable energy sources. The rules main purpose was to govern implementation of the State’s new Advanced Energy Portfolio Standard (AEPS) established in Senate Bill 221. The AEPS is broader version of a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) adopted by other states