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New rules cloud future for large-scale wind farms in Ohio
http://www.limaohio.com/news/apnews-home_top-news/151863316/New-rules-cloud-future-for-large-scale-wind-farms-in-Ohio[font face=Serif][font size=5]New rules cloud future for large-scale wind farms in Ohio[/font]
Last updated: February 14. 2015 6:56PM - 0 Views
By John Seewer Associated Press
[font size=3]TOLEDO (AP) — The long-range forecast for big wind farms in Ohio is cloudy at best.
About a dozen wind farm projects that have been certified by the state are essentially on hold now and may never get off the ground after Ohio put in a two-year delay on its renewable energy targets last summer.
Backers of wind energy aren’t ready to say the projects are dead, but it’s also clear that the delay of the state mandates for alternative energy sources and a new law that limits where the turbines can go up have put plans for large-scale wind farms in jeopardy.
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The panel was created last year to review the impacts of Ohio’s clean-energy standard put in place by former Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland. But opponents argued the standards are driving up electricity costs by imposing costly government mandates on utility companies and now several Republican lawmakers want to kill the green-energy goals altogether.
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Last updated: February 14. 2015 6:56PM - 0 Views
By John Seewer Associated Press
[font size=3]TOLEDO (AP) — The long-range forecast for big wind farms in Ohio is cloudy at best.
About a dozen wind farm projects that have been certified by the state are essentially on hold now and may never get off the ground after Ohio put in a two-year delay on its renewable energy targets last summer.
Backers of wind energy aren’t ready to say the projects are dead, but it’s also clear that the delay of the state mandates for alternative energy sources and a new law that limits where the turbines can go up have put plans for large-scale wind farms in jeopardy.
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The panel was created last year to review the impacts of Ohio’s clean-energy standard put in place by former Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland. But opponents argued the standards are driving up electricity costs by imposing costly government mandates on utility companies and now several Republican lawmakers want to kill the green-energy goals altogether.
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