There soon may be more wind farms in Ohio.
The Ohio Senate's GOP leadership is making an effort to
encourage wind-farm development in the state by eliminating restrictive rules
that previous GOP leadership slipped into a budget bill four years ago.
The 2014 changes lengthened the distance a wind turbine can
be to an adjoining property line to 1,125 feet -- rather than to the
nearest home on adjacent property -- and ended any further wind project
applications in the state.
The Senate is proposing to relax those restrictions. Yet at
the same time it is making changes to other state energy laws including those
requiring electric companies to sell more energy generated by wind, solar and
hydro projects and to develop programs that help customers use less
electricity.
