First Energy continues to ask for exemptions while making excuses. The exemption is for a 2008 law requiring some energy produced in Ohio come from renewable sources. Utilities can buy S-RECS (Solar Renewable Energy Credits) from third party producers. It’s a free market means to meet what the law has required.
Ellen Raines, a spokeswoman for First Energy states, “We worked hard to purchase every credit that was offered to us, but there were simply not enough available for us to meet our goal - We really don’t have expertise as an operator of renewable resources.”
Really?
First Energy is supposed to have the expertise to produce and deliver electricity - as they have done with coal and nuclear reactors. And yet - they don’t have the expertise to produce solar electricity.
American Electric Power, another Ohio utility, contracted its solar requirement from a developer who built Ohio’s largest solar array in Wyandot County. But apparently, First Energy does not have ‘the expertise’ to contract it’s solar requirement.
Really!
Al Campoon, of Toledo, drives the point home:
“The FE (First Energy) response is nonsensical...
Toledo Museum of Art has a 100 kW system, and First Solar has a 2.4 MW system. In FE's appeal to PUCO they claim to have purchased only 112 SRECs. My home and Sylvania UCC church sold 31 SRECs to FE, more than a quarter of their total. The big systems I listed should have produced almost all FE needed....”
First Energy has recently posted a Request for Proposal to meet last years SREC requirement. First Energy is doing a fine job of breaking the law to kill off a decentralized solar power market in Ohio.
It’s this kind of nonsense which lead us to develop SolerPlex. It can produce from 1 to 3 Kilowatts of electricity per day and receives a 30% federal tax credit for a homeowner.
Don’t worry, First Energy - we'll meet Ohio's energy future. Most likely without you. Really.
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