Ohio’s Energy Choice: Trump’s Energy Dominance Agenda or Failed California Polices
Ohio Residents, Call Your Lawmakers and tell them not to turn Ohio into California!
House of Representatives:
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Ohio lawmakers are faced with a big decision: support President Trump’s America First energy agenda or follow California’s failed policies. A bill under consideration in the state house, H.B. 15, would significantly change the way power is generated and delivered to customers in Ohio.
This week, Power The Future released a report examining H.B. 15 and the corresponding bill, S.B. 2, which was just passed by the Senate.
As currently drafted, these bills make it harder to reliably and affordably meet growing energy demand, support economic growth, and advance President Trump’s American energy agenda.
As the report notes:
“While the legislation’s sponsors claim their intent is to modernize Ohio’s energy regulatory framework and adhere to free-market principles, enactment would introduce significant risks that could destabilize the electrical system underpinning the state’s economic success. Worse, it would serve to benefit solar and wind projects with no actual business plan of how to deliver electricity to consumers, heavily subsidized by Biden-era tax credits and incentives, at the expense of Ohio natural gas-fired generation.”
“By removing cost-recovery certainty and forcing utilities to compete in a market unfairly tilted in favor of renewables backed by Biden-era federal subsidies, these bills would impose upon Ohioans energy policies that have led to grid instability, blackouts, and higher energy prices in other states.”
One major change that would take effect under the bills would negatively impact the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation (OVEC), which operates coal plants and employs 275 energy workers. The provision completely undermines President Trump’s efforts to protect workers whose jobs and livelihoods have been under assault by the liberal eco-left’s war on coal.
Now, state senators bought by the Sierra Club are bragging about shutting down the coal industry, which provides more than 3,000 jobs across the state.
In a letter to the House Energy Committee, the Ohio Coal Association (OCA) discusses the importance of the state’s energy mix:
“Coal based electricity generation is low cost, resilient, and the coal can be mined right here in Ohio. There is no shortage of coal in our state; it is an abundant resource in Ohio that can and should be tapped into, which will not only increase reliability in the energy grid but will also create jobs all over the state from the mines to the ancillary jobs our industry supports (not to mention being the bedrock energy resource for advanced manufacturing and production facilities that are coming to Ohio). It is imperative that coal be a key part of any path forward to establish a long-term, sustainable, reliable, and low-cost energy future in the state.”
Ohio House members have an opportunity to stop this misguided legislation from moving forward by voting NO on H.B. 15. The bill must be changed to support an America First energy agenda and protect Ohio jobs, economic growth, and, most importantly, families. Ohioans cannot allow lawmakers to turn the state into another California, with its failed policies, flailing economy, and fleeing population.
March 20, 2025