Energy

Senate Bill 2 addresses a range of related issues, including energy costs for consumers, reliability, and barriers to entering the market for utilities.

With data centers and tech industries moving into Ohio, demand for energy is growing rapidly.

Last month, the Ohio Supreme Court heard an appeal of state approval for Harvey Solar, a proposed 350-megawatt solar project in Licking County.

A statewide business coalition believes Ohio should harness the demand of data centers in part by overhauling the state’s permitting and siting processes.

The report, released Wednesday by Americans for Prosperity-Ohio and the Buckeye Institute, comes as state lawmakers negotiate a bill overhauling energy statute.

A study over the last decade through Ohio State University found that the cost of 72% of the most popular retail electricity offers have fallen above the default price that consumers would pay if they didn’t shop around.

Public utility regulators in Ohio found Connecticut-based Realgy Energy manipulated customer call recordings and lied to consumers. The company must pay a $355,000 fine.

Asking Chat GPT a question uses more power than you think. A single query consumes 10 times the electricity of a google search, which is exponentially more power.

House Bill 79 eked out of the Ohio House earlier this summer, clearing the chamber by a 50-46 vote.

Sen. Joe Manchin says he fought for and won a hub for the gas-rich area of Appalachia. The hub is a public-private consortium that was awarded up to $925 million from the federal government for projects in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania.