Of 31 states with a “renewable energy portfolio standard” (RPS), Ohio derives the smallest share of its energy from renewable sources.
COLUMBUS – Since passage of a 2019 law now embroiled in criminal scandal, Ohio has had the least stringent clean-energy requirements of any U.S. state with a renewable standard, a survey of state policies shows.
Ohio established its clean-energy law in 2008, one of the later states in the nation to do so. As part of a broader energy overhaul package, the Ohio law created the RPS and an energy-efficiency program, which allowed utilities to charge all ratepayers to fund efforts to reduce customers’ electricity demand via smart appliances and other energy savers.
Ohio’s RPS changes join a list of other state policies like onerous property requirements for wind turbines and local government veto power for renewable-energy projects that developers say are holding back Ohio’s clean-energy economy. In the same bill, the state created an “Energy Efficiency Resource Standard” requiring utilities to reduce demand by 22% by 2025 relative to 2009 levels.and removed the in-state requirements. It effectively froze both the RPS and energy efficiency standards.
Galen Barbose, a lead author on the Berkeley study, said Ohio, with some minor and narrow exceptions, is the only state to reverse its progress on RPS standards, which are a key means of decreasing carbon emissions in the U.S. that cause climate change.
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