If WV had Integrated Resource Planning, we could see these savings too.

JBK

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mary Anne Hitt maryanne.hitt@sierraclub.org Date: Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 3:08 PM Subject: [Coal Volunteers List] A remarkable, historic week - thank you To: #Coal coal-list@sierraclub.org, coal-volunteers-list@sierraclub.org

Hello Beyond Coal team,

Big Energy Efficiency Win in Ohio ( http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2013/03/firstenergy_corp_ordered... ) This week, the Ohio Public Utilities Commission required utility FirstEnergy to include energy efficiency as part of the portfolio of energy sources they will put into the market for auction this year. The utility had ferociously resisted doing this because they only wanted to put their coal power on the market, to protect their aging, increasingly uncompetitive merchant coal plants. The Commission's action will save Ohio electric customers tens of millions of dollars and will also result in an estimated 300 MW of coal and gas within PJM -- the regional grid operator -- failing to clear in this year's auction, removing a critical revenue stream for these uneconomic plants and hastening their retirement. Perhaps most exciting, the Commission's action signals that they are likely to require something similar for Ohio's other utilities, which also participate in PJM. If so, we're likely to see something like 800-1,000 additional megawatts of cheap, carbon-free energy displacing dirty capacity within the PJM footprint.