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Ohio Business Roundtable urges faster permitting, new Office of Energy Resiience in energy competitiveness study
Summary
An invited witness representing the Ohio Business Roundtable told the House Energy Committee the state needs faster siting and permitting, a non‑regulatory Office of Energy Resilience, and incentives to speed new generation and transmission to meet rising demand from data centers and industry.
Alexandra Denney, representing the Ohio Business Roundtable, presented invited testimony to the House Energy Committee summarizing the group’s Energy Competitiveness Study and a set of state‑focused recommendations to speed new generation and transmission.
Denney said Ohio is seeing a rapid rise in electricity demand tied to advanced manufacturing and data centers and warned that retirements in the PJM footprint are creating a growing gap between supply and demand. “We need more generation, in order to meet that demand as well as transmission,” Denney said.
The study recommended a set of changes the Roundtable describes as state‑level, pragmatic steps.…
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