The Nature Conservancy and the Environmental Defense Fund recently released a report showing that “Ohio would gain thousands of jobs and consumers would save millions of dollars on utility bills if the state increases its support for clean-energy policies,” The Columbus Dispatch reports. That support could bring Ohio as much as $28.8 million to $50.9 million savings in consumers’ electricity bills by 2030 and as many as 82,300 to 136,000 new jobs, the report says. This forecast is “the latest of many from national environmental groups that make the case that Ohio would be wise, financially and otherwise, to embrace clean-energy technology,” according to the article. Those groups are looking ahead to the expiration of the two-year freeze on renewable energy and energy efficiency standards (see our June 13, 2014 blog post), while some state lawmakers “are trying to gather support for proposals that would extend the freeze or at least make the requirements optional in the short term (see our October 3, 2016 blog post).”
State support for clean energy could bring thousands of jobs and millions in savings, report says
