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Planning and Measurement
State Advisory Board
Status: No Activity Identified
Regional Initiatives
Status: Completed
Details: Observer to the Midwestern Regional Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord, signed on November 15, 2007.
Member of Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium (LADCO) Regional GHG Registry.
GHG Inventory
Status: Completed
Details: Completed in 1997.
Climate Change Action Plan
Status: No Activity Identified
Targets and Caps
Lead by Example Target
Status: No Activity Identified
Statewide GHG Target
Status: No Activity Identified
Statewide GHG Cap
Status: No Activity Identified
Reporting
Electricity Disclosure
Status: Completed
Details: In 2000, the Ohio Public Utilities Commission adopted rules requiring electricity suppliers to disclose environmental information to retail customers in accordance with the state's 1999 restructuring law (SB 3). Beginning January 2001, retail providers must disclose fuel mix and emissions of CO2, SO2, and NOx, relative to the regional average. The amount of radioactive waste generated also must be disclosed.
- http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/incentive.cfm?Incentive_Code=OH05R&state=OH&CurrentPageID=1&RE=1&EE=1
- http://www.puco.ohio.gov/apps/rules/rulefinder.cfm?rulekeyword=4901c1d21&printer=1#5204
- http://www.puco.ohio.gov/PUCO/Consumer/Information.cfm?id=5728
GHG Registry
Status: In Progress
Details: Member of The Climate Registry - a collaboration aimed at developing and managing a common GHG emissions reporting system across states, provinces, and tribes. It will provide an accurate, complete, consistent, transparent, and verified set of GHG emissions data from reporting entities, supported by a robust accounting and verification infrastructure. Members released a final General Reporting Protocol in May 2008. The Climate Registry plans to start accepting data in summer 2008.
Mandatory GHG Reporting
Status: No Activity Identified
Power Sector
CO2 Offset Requirements
Status: No Activity Identified
GHG Performance Standard
Status: No Activity Identified
Advanced Coal Technology
Status: Completed
Details: The Ohio Coal Development Office (created in 1984 by the legislature) funds the development and deployment of advanced coal technologies, including carbon sequestration.
Power Sector GHG Cap and Trade
Status: No Activity Identified
Details: Under the Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Accord, signed on November 15, 2007, participating states jointly endeavor to develop a market-based and multi-sector cap-and-trade mechanism to help achieve GHG reduction targets. Since Ohio signed the accord as an observer, considered No Activity.
Transportation Sector
GHG Auto Standards
Status: No Activity Identified
Low Carbon Fuel Standard
Status: No Activity Identified