A legislative panel reviewing Ohio's renewable energy law
while state mandates are on a two-year hiatus is kicking off with testimony
from the state's top utility regulator.
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Chairman Tom Johnson
addresses the Energy Mandates Study Committee Monday.
The panel was created in May to part of a bill delaying
enforcement of state mandates for alternative energy sources, such as solar and
wind.
Its job is to assess the costs to utilities and consumers of
a law that said 25 percent of Ohio's energy should come from alternative
sources by 2025.
The new law continues that target in 2017 unless a better
alternative is found. The pause represented a compromise brokered by Republican
Gov. John Kasich (KAY'-sik) with those who wanted the green-energy goals
permanently repealed.
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