"After a few years of progress, a new national ranking of state energy efficiency policies confirms that Ohio is now falling fast behind competing states," reports David Beach.
Beach provides the history of how Ohio fell from its position of leadership in energy efficiency: "In 2008, the Ohio General Assembly voted almost unanimously to require investor-owned utilities to support the expansion of energy efficiency and renewable energy….In 2013, the state was named 'most improved' by the State Energy Efficiency Scorecard, a policy ranking by the influential American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)."
Yet that changed in 2014, when the state's General Assembly "passed SB 310, which placed a freeze on the clean energy requirements and called for a panel to study whether the freeze should be permanent." An article by Anastasia Pantsios reports that the study panel is stacked with opponents of clean energy.
The latest ACEEE scorecard took notice, and "Ohio dropped seven spots to a tie for 25th place in the ranking, making it one of the states to fall the furthest in 2014." Then there was this ignominious mark: "The ACEEE scorecard gave Ohio 0 out of a possible 9 points for transportation policies."
FULL STORY: Back to the carbon age: Ohio falls in ranking of state energy efficiency policies
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