While Ohio’s “traditional monopoly power companies” lobby state lawmakers to “return to a fully regulated system,” a recent poll shows a majority of voters are opposed to changing from a competitive market to one with less choice, Cleveland.com reports. Fallon Research and Communications polled “more than 800 Ohio voters” in January 2017, and found that “[m]ore than 91 percent would oppose any law change allowing FirstEnergy or Columbus-based AEP to build new power plants and raise monthly rates to pay for them,” according to the article. In addition, “[n]early 79 percent would oppose any legislation that did away with a customer’s choice to shop for power suppliers.” American Electric Power (AEP), FirstEnergy and Dayton Power & Light “have already been talking about ‘re-structuring’” as state legislators “consider changing Ohio’s 16-year embrace of competition.” For more, read the full article.
Ohio voters oppose utility re-regulation, want to keep energy choice
