COLUMBUS,
Ohio -- Gov. John Kasich on Friday[6/16/14] signed into law --
without comment -- controversial legislation [voted for by Petersen
and Rosenberger] that freezes state rules requiring electric
utilities to sell more power generated by wind and solar and to help
customers use less electricity.
Senate
Bill 310, created by the Republican legislative majorities at the
behest of the utilities and some of the state's largest industries,
keeps the annually increasing mandates at this year's levels.........
In
the meantime the world is moving on.
…........China
should slow its nuclear ambitions to a pace its regulators can keep
up with, and build its reactors using the best existing
technology—which happens to be Western. That need not condemn it to
more sooty, coal-fired years. The cost of renewable energy is
dropping quickly and its efficiency is rising sharply. Last year,
over
half of all new power-generation capacity installed in China was
hydro, wind or solar. If
China wants to accelerate its move away from coal, ramping up those
alternatives yet more would be a lot safer.
Paul Hunter
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