OMA Defends Competitive Markets Before Senate Energy Panel

This week, Brad Belden — president of The Belden Brick Company, Canton, and chair of the OMA Energy Committee — testified before the Ohio Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee. In addition to making suggestions for an improved regulatory and policy environment, he told senators to stay the course on deregulation, cautioning against a state-administered capacity pricing mechanism for nuclear, coal, and solar generation (similar to the one that currently faces disqualification from the wholesale market).