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Ohio business group urges 90-day siting clock, new state office to speed generation and transmission
Summary
Alexandra Denney of the Ohio Business Roundtable told the House Energy Committee the state faces a surge in electricity demand from data centers and industry and urged faster siting and permitting, a new Office of Energy Resilience and targeted incentives to attract new generation and transmission.
Alexandra Denney, testifying for the Ohio Business Roundtable, told the House Energy Committee that Ohio is entering a period of rapidly rising electricity demand driven by data centers and advanced manufacturing and needs faster permitting and more generation and transmission to keep pace.
"This is kind of a historical period that we're entering," Denney said, summarizing the study's demand analysis and the recent wave of industrial energy users. She and the Business Roundtable's work group cited PJM retirements and an aging fleet: "More than 44 gigawatts has been deactivated within PJM. 13 gigawatts of that has been in Ohio," she said, and noted that roughly 25 GW of PJM capacity is older than average retirement age.
The study centers on state-level steps the authors say are within Ohio's…
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