This article first appeared in the Ohio Capital Journal
Last March during the hearings on Ohio House Bill 15, I was the only representative of an environmental organization in Ohio to testify against it.
The reason? It gave the Ohio Power Siting Board just 45 days to consider a major utility facility – defined as 50 MW or more – to serve a large energy user – often a data center – on property owned by the applicant. Usually this process takes one to three years…