Ohio Governor John Kasich rejected a bill to extend a freeze
on a law that requires utilities in the state to buy more electricity from
renewable sources including wind and solar power.
The bill would have extended for two years a delay on the
state’s requirement that utilities get 12.5 percent of their power from
renewables by 2027, slowing development of the clean energy
technologies and
threatening investment and jobs, Kasich said Tuesday in a statement. House bill 554 would
also have made the goal voluntary.
