Industry executives praise Ohio's advanced energy legislation
Sean Casten, chief executive of Recycled Energy Development of Chicago, and Philip Brennan, chief executive of Echogen in Akron, wrote an op-ed for the Akron Beacon Journal recently saying that waste energy recovery provisions in S.B. 315 will reduce pollutants and carbon emissions, provide clean power and encourage not only growth in Ohio's manufacturing sector, but also substantial investment from out of state. Using U.S. Department of Energy estimates, Casten and Brennan say that combined heat and power and waste heat recovery projects "would supply about 30 percent of the state's existing capacity" of electric power. For more, read the full op-ed.
