We're pleased to see the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio taking a step toward ‘advanced energy’—renewable solutions to the problems facing the Ohio electricity industry—with last week's much anticipated rule changes.

Although PUCO’s ruling mostly sets the stage for further study of, for example, how to connect (and fairly compensate) renewable energy producers to the grid (aka interconnection), it can be seen as a positive course correction to the market failures of deregulation.

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