Freeze on Clean Energy / Renewable Energy / Wind Energy
on March 27, 2018 at 6:26 pm ×
COLUMBUS — “Lawmakers are lining up their priorities for policymaking once they return from their spring break. As Statehouse correspondent Andy Chow reports, the top leader in the Senate says he has a particular issue he expects to address when they come back. The state’s green energy standards require utilities to […]
Energy / Renewable Energy / Wind Energy
on February 21, 2018 at 3:42 pm ×
TOLEDO — “Wind energy’s future in Ohio is at a crossroads. Two much different proposals — one easing restrictions stifling new wind farms and another adding more hurdles for future development — are being pitched to state lawmakers and regulators. …Ohio ranks in the middle of the pack among all […]
Energy / Renewable Energy / Wind Energy
on February 20, 2018 at 4:59 pm ×
COLUMBUS — “An Ohio Republican’s bill would relax one of the nation’s strictest wind farm setback laws, but a proposed rule change could make getting variances next to impossible. Ohio’s four-year-old setback law calls for wind turbines on commercial wind farms to be about 1,300 feet from the closest property line. […]
Coal / Energy / Freeze on Clean Energy / Renewable Energy / Wind Energy
on January 17, 2018 at 6:28 pm ×
Powerful legislator leads attack on wind industry while pushing taxpayer subsidies for coal plants COLUMBUS — “On at least 15 occasions, according to our review, powerful Ohio House Majority Leader Bill Seitz has said he believes in free markets, proclaimed himself a ‘capitalist’ or declared his opposition to energy mandates. As […]
Wind Energy
on December 19, 2017 at 8:11 pm ×
FINDLAY — “For several years before his resignation from the Ohio Senate, Cliff Hite, R-Findlay, had pushed hard to create wind-energy opportunities for the state. Wind has not always been a popular GOP cause, but Hite’s advocacy was based, in part, on the fact that his district included favorable locations […]
Renewable Energy / Wind Energy
on December 12, 2017 at 3:00 pm ×
TOLEDO — “Wind energy developers considered this requirement highly onerous, and their money followed them out of Ohio. A 20-page report by two Washington-based industry groups, the American Wind Energy Association and the Wind Energy Foundation, found Ohio has foregone roughly $4.2 billion in potential economic development since the 2014 rules […]
Renewable Energy / Wind Energy
on December 7, 2017 at 5:40 pm ×
COLUMBUS — “An issue that some believe will reignite the wind energy industry is getting a new wave of support. A previous version of the bill stalled after the resignation of a senator. A northeast Ohio Republican lawmaker has reintroduced a bill to decrease wind setbacks, which is the distance a […]
Wind Energy
on December 4, 2017 at 7:42 pm ×
GREEN SPRINGS — “Ohio’s highly contentious debate over setback requirements for massive wind turbines is being played out in rural Seneca and Sandusky counties, where a company ready to invest $92 million vows to walk away unless the Ohio General Assembly comes up with rules much softer than those Gov. […]
Coal / Energy / Wind Energy
on December 4, 2017 at 4:51 pm ×
CLEVELAND — “A pro-coal group that has appeared in multiple Ohio wind farm cases has not disclosed its members, raising questions about who funds the nonprofit organization and what relationship it might have to other parties. The Campaign for American Affordable and Reliable Energy (CAARE) has been added to the service list […]
Energy / Renewable Energy / Wind Energy
on November 8, 2017 at 5:34 pm ×
Cleveland is on track to lead a nascent offshore wind industry in the U.S., creating clean energy and jobs for a city in need of both CLEVELAND — “Lorry Wagner has spent more than a decade attempting to convince the world that Cleveland has all the ingredients to be a giant […]