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By: Sharon

Sharon — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:19 +0000

Solar power would be WONDERFUL, as I live out in the country and the electric goes out repeatedly, but the cost is so high to achieve that it is out wayed by the dollar. If the power company is in such a demand for solar power, then why is the incentive done after the home owner has paid to do the install?

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:40:06 +0000

Charlie is wrong. If it was five percent DSIRE – which lists all the renewable standards – would have written as 0.05% or 0.05. It lists it as fifty percent, or half, written as 0.5% or 0.50%, and elsewhere writes that out as “fifty percent”.

But it is not fifty percent of all energy in Ohio.

Let me explain it again. The total required renewable is twenty five percent. Half of the renewable requirement requires in state energy, or fifty percent of twenty five percent, which is twelve and a half percent. Half of that must come from solar, and half of twelve and a half percent is six and a quarter percent.

My story is just about the solar in-state, that the utility is concerned enough about meeting, to file a lawsuit.

By: Al Rosenfield

Al Rosenfield — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:35:56 +0000

Charlie is correct. The 0.5% solar requirement is given in Section 4928.64(B) of the Ohio Revised Code, on-line at .

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:53:30 +0000

Here is the source: 50 percent is written 0.5 and 0.50 in DSIRE RPS for Ohio:

http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/incentive.cfm?Incentive_Code=OH14R&re=1&ee=1
Sorry if my description is confusing:

25% is the total renewables needed by 2025
Half must be in-state, half of that must be solar

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:37:12 +0000

Susan…your post is a little misleading. Or could at least some clarification.

You initially say Ohio needs to meet 25% of its electricity from solar projects or credits by 2024. But the goals is for “alternative energy”, not just solar. The solar carve-out is actually only one-half of one percent (0.5%) of their total electricity by 2024.

Later in post you say “50% of its electricity from solar projects and SRECs.”

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