Ohio gets 87 percent of its electricity from coal (and the rest is mostly nukes), putting it in the upper echelon of coal-using states in the nation (No. 2 behind Texas, to be precise).
And that, friends, is about to change, because yesterday the Ohio Legislature passed a renewable energy standard requiring utilities to provide 12.5 percent of Ohio's electricity from clean, renewable energy sources like wind and solar by 2025. This bill has a solar-specific requirement that will result in about 594 MW of solar in the Buckeye State. Not too shabby! Kudos to Environment Ohio and the thousands of other activists that worked hard to make it happen.
Next, the bill lands on Gov. Strickland's desk. If you like, take a moment to email the governor to thank him for making clean energy a top priority and encourage him to take the final step of signing this bill into law.
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KenG Posted 11:22 am
24 Apr 2008
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The Ohio bill actually requires 25% CO2 free electricity. 12.5% will be renewable and 12.5% advanced energy sources. Of course, they wimped out since they already have the 12.5% advanced energy sources with the nuclear generation.
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Ashley Braun Posted 6:24 am
25 Apr 2008
Ohi-NO to Old King Coal
This is the most exciting environmental thing to happen to Ohio in a long time! I gave good ol' Ted Strickland a big pat on the back.
We Ohioans aren't known for much in the environmental world -- not much good anyway -- but at least we're starting to catch on.
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