As always, the ratepayer suffers
Mugshots of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, and former Ohio Republican Party chair and lobbyist Matt Borges.
One of them, Columbus-based AEP, acknowledged that the elimination of the programs has limited what it can offer customers to save electricity. In an email, AEP spokesman Scott Blake said “House Bill 6 ended energy efficiency requirements, which hampers our ability to offer programs to customers. AEP Ohio had implemented many successful energy efficiency programs prior to this change in state law. Our customers have expressed interest in energy efficiency, and we have proposed to offer a new menu of voluntary programs in our Electric Security Plan currently under consideration by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
The efficiency standards were built into consumers’ bills to incentivize the use of technologies that save electricity and thus obviate the need for more carbon-spewing generation. For example, they enabled Ohio utilities to offer discounts on fluorescent light bulbs when they were relatively expensive, but much longer-lasting and efficient than incandescent bulbs.
For example, Kelter said, when they were collecting money from incentives for fluorescent bulbs, utilities were slow to move to the next technology, LED bulbs, because they had a sure thing in fluorescents.Sam Randazzo — whom Gov. Mike DeWine in 2019 nominated to chair the Public Utilities Commission — had previously worked as a utility lobbyistIn a deferred prosecution agreement with the federal government, FirstEnergy said it bribed Randazzo $4.
Mike Specian, lead author of the efficiency scorecard, praised the three big Ohio utilities for some of their offerings — including discounts to customers who use power at off-peak times.
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