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PUCO chair urges net‑metering expansion for businesses, seeks IT upgrades in HB96 testimony
Summary
Jennifer French, chair of the Public Utilities Commission, told the House Natural Resources Committee the PUCO budget request includes IT modernization and a policy proposal to expand net metering so businesses can site generating facilities anywhere in their utility territory and to allow dispatchable thermal resources; she said safeguards would protect consumers.
Jennifer French, chair of the Public Utilities Commission, told the House Natural Resources Committee that the PUCO’s budget request under House Bill 96 includes funding for IT modernization and a policy proposal to expand Ohio’s net‑metering law to give businesses more flexibility to develop on‑site and off‑site generation.
"The requested change includes language to expand Ohio's net metering statute to allow businesses that want to develop their own electric generating resources for their use, but whose physical locations are constrained, to build generating facilities anywhere within their electric utility service territory," French said in…
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