The Ohio legislature has introduced a draft law that would provide clean energy credits to zero-emission power producers, including nuclear plants. Through the bill, dubbed the Ohio Clean Air Program, Representatives Jamie Callender and Shane Wilkin also aim to lower customers\u2019 electric bills.<\/p>\n
OCAP is intended to provide incentives to electric power generators that produce zero-carbon emissions, reduce emissions or invest in clean energy, while also looking for ways to offer an alternative way to encourage cleaner energy production in the state.<\/p>\n
Currently, Ohio\u2019s residential, commercial and industrial energy customers, through mandates on their bills<\/a>, pay monthly charges for renewable and energy efficiency\/peak demand services. The new bill proposes to keep those programs available to customers as options but replace them with the new OCAP proposition. The OCAP would appear on customer bills, and its issuers estimate that for most customers it will be lower than the amount charged by the mandates and programs.<\/p>\n