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Article: Utilities balk at Husted's benchmark proposal ; House speaker wants to force manufacturers to make steady progress annually from 2009-25.
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- Dayton Daily News
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- February 22, 2008
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COLUMBUS -- Environmentalists applauded and manufacturers howled
as House Speaker Jon Husted, R-Kettering, announced a plan to force
electric utilities to make steady progress toward using more and
more renewable energy.
"We're enthusiastic that this is the right direction for Ohio,"
Husted said Thursday, Feb. 21, in the Statehouse Atrium packed with
lawmakers, lobbyists and lawyers. "This is really about making sure
that we're not caught behind the times, that we're looking ahead,
that we're trying to get out in front of a trend for once in this
state."
In August, Gov. Ted Strickland unveiled a plan to re-regulate
Ohio's electricity market and require utilities to get 12.5 percent
of ...