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Sneaking Ohio Out of ‘Green Energy’ Church

October 11th, 2011 | Author:
    

By Kevin O’Brien, Cleveland Plain Dealer—Some form of green energy may actually deliver cost-effective power, but for now, it’s a scam.

Ohio’s legislators knew that when they approved the renewable portfolio standards, which call for Ohio utilities to generate a preposterous 12.5 percent of consumer electricity from expensive, inefficient sources like wind and solar energy by 2025. Another 12.5 percent is supposed to come from sources like “advanced nuclear,” “clean coal,” biomass and other ideas that will have to be pried off the drawing board really soon. Don’t hold your breath.

The Beacon Hill Institute, in a report published by American Tradition Institute, figured these green dreams will add $1.4 billion to Ohioans’ electricity bills by 2025.

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History and Founding Principles American Tradition Institute (ATI) is a public policy research and educational foundation - a "think tank" - founded in 2009 to help lead the national discussion about environmental issues, including air and water quality and regulation, responsible land use, natural resource management, energy development, property rights, and free-market principles of stewardship. American Tradition Institute utilizes a three-pronged strategy to advance responsible, economically sustainable environmental policy: Research, investigative journalism, and litigation, via our Environmental Law Center. Our combination of expert policy analysis, exposing truth, and redressing wrongs in court advances the cause of liberty, and will...

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