With public support growing for energy efficiency in Ohio, FirstEnergy and its allies are again trying to take their case behind closed doors.

Last week, State Senator Bill Seitz offered an unusual amendment for inclusion in the state budget bill: a provision that stated that if, hypothetically, a new law related to energy efficiency were to be passed later this summer (I wonder who would introduce it?), then the budget bill would retroactively require the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to renegotiate the terms of energy efficiency with Ohio’s utilities, including FirstEnergy, giving them an opportunity to get terms more […]