Testimony submitted on SB 117
By Beth Sergent - bsergent@aimmediamidwest.com
COLUMBUS, Ohio Proposed legislation currently in an Ohio Senate Committee, could affect the Kyger Creek Power Plant located in Gallia County, and, as both supporters and critics argue, consumers.
Senate Bill 117 (SB 117) states its a bill to “amend section 4928.01 and to repeal section 4928.148 of the Revised Code to repeal the legacy generation resource provisions of H.B. 6 of the 133rd General Assembly and provide customers refunds.”
According to documents filed via the senate’s committee, the legislation’s primary sponsors, Sen. Mark Romanchuk (R-Ontario from District 22) and Sen. Hearcel Craig (D-Columbus from District 15), wrote, in part:
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Powering up America by giving consumers choice
Posted : 2021-06-27 17:00 By Peter Roff
America s high national living standards lead us to consider things like abundant access to clean water, comprehensive cellular service, and a reliable electric grid commonplace. Much of the rest of the world regards them as luxuries unavailable to many people.
Consequently, we tend to think about these things only when they don t work. Cloudy water creates a crisis. A cell phone outage leaves us stranded. Failures in the power market leave us, literally and figuratively, in the dark about what to do.
The critics of how the market allocates the distribution of electric power allege competition would lead to more brown- and blackouts. Despite abundant evidence they are wrong, they don t trust the competitive market system to keep the lights on. Even now they re waging a campaign to upend the market structure in places like my home state of Virginia, where competition has overall helped maint
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