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House Energy Committee hears HB303 to pilot community energy projects; sponsors emphasize local control, private capital and economic benefits
Summary
Representatives Hoopes and Ray introduced House Bill 303 to create a phased community energy pilot that would allow third-party developers to build small-scale distributed generation (solar, wind, biomass, landfill gas, hydroelectric, natural-gas-fired generators, fuel cells, and storage) using private capital, with local permitting and decommis
Representatives Hoopes and Ray presented House Bill 303 to the House Energy Committee as a pilot to expand community energy and distributed generation in Ohio, emphasizing local permitting authority, private capital, consumer protections and phased implementation.
Representative Hoopes described HB303 as a "holistic approach to addressing distributive energy connectivity" and said it broadens community energy implementation, defining community energy to include solar photovoltaic facilities, wind, biomass, landfill gas, hydro, natural-gas-fired generators, fuel cells and energy storage.
Representative Ray said the program is…
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