Renewable Energy

Save Ohio Parks says data centers should be required to meet their energy needs with solar and wind power and battery storage.

Roughly a third of Ohio’s counties have banned large-scale renewable energy developments in unincorporated areas. Richland County is one of the first to hold a referendum.

Columbus City Schools could commit to replacing gas-burning equipment with electric, using zero-emissions vehicles and choosing renewable energy whenever possible.

At one point, the state was among the leaders in clean energy policy, but there’s been a retrenchment in those efforts and renewed investment in fossil fuels.

Energy needs are increasing for the first time in 10 years. Some are seeking to improve the state government’s adversarial relationship with the renewable industry.

Opponents of Oak Run Solar in Madison County argued in front of the Ohio Supreme Court that the Ohio Power Siting Board accepted an incomplete application.

For decades Ohio made policies to favor fossil fuels over renewable sources like wind and solar. That's caused impacts to health and the environment. We explore in part two of WOSU's State of Energy series.

Frasier Solar will put solar panels on about 800 acres of disconnected farmland in Miller and Clinton townships and in Mount Vernon.

Citizens group Save Hartford Township appealed the Ohio Power Siting Board's approval of the Harvey Solar, a 350-megawatt solar farm set for Bennington and Hartford townships.

About a quarter of Ohio counties have bans on renewable energy projects. In northwest Ohio, Paulding County has embraced them.