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Consumers' counsel warns HB 303 could shift costs to nonparticipants; conservative group praises growth but objects to local veto power
Summary
The House Energy Committee held a third hearing on House Bill 303, a community energy pilot program that would allow multiple subscribers to share the output of local energy projects and receive bill credits on their utility bills.
The House Energy Committee held a third hearing on House Bill 303, a bill to create a community energy pilot program that would allow multiple subscribers to share output from local energy projects and receive bill credits. Maureen Willis, director of the Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel (OCC), testified as an interested party and urged stronger guardrails to prevent costs from shifting to nonparticipating residential and small business customers.
OCC's central concern is that the bill allows uncapped bill credits tied to a utility's retail rates — including generation and transmission — and gives broad discretion to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) to set credits “at a…
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