Articles About AMP Ohio

• Township solar project divides neighbors

  By Megan BachmanJuly 25, 2019

  

  In the countryside southeast of Yellow Springs, an area of rolling farmland dotted with homes and barns may someday be the site of a massive solar array.

• Village Council—Local electricity mega-green

  By Megan BachmanJuly 18, 2019

  

  Yellow Springs has the greenest power supply of the 139 municipal members of its electric supplier. It may even be the greenest on the region’s electric grid.

• Village Council — Solar producers challenge cap

  By Megan BachmanJuly 11, 2019

  

  Should the Village raise its cap on the amount of solar energy it buys from local residences? Village Council broached that question at its July 1 regular meeting.

• Village Council —  Expand voting to noncitizens?

  By Megan BachmanJuly 4, 2019

  

  Local 16- and 17-year olds and noncitizen legal residents could vote in local elections as early as next year.

• Yellow Springs cuts energy use smartly

  By Megan BachmanMarch 13, 2014

  

  Yellow Springs shaved 3.7 percent off of its annual electricity use over the last three years, thanks to a communitywide energy-efficiency program.

• June 1 deadline for wind, bike project

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 24, 2012

  At Council’s May 7 meeting, Council members continued discussion on both issues, one a project aimed to make the village more attractive to cyclists, and the other adding more renewable energy to the Village energy portfolio.

• No-coal choice saved money

  By Megan BachmanMay 17, 2012

  The Village’s decision five years ago against investing in a 1,600-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Illinois may have spared its electric customers from decades of high utility bills.

• Opinions differ over wind power

  By Megan Bachman

  

  When Ohio’s largest wind farm comes online this summer, 300-ton turbines reaching 40 stories high will convert wind into electricity, and will help Ohioans cut carbon dioxide emissions and stem climate change. Or will it?

• AMP offers green pricing program

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 3, 2012

  At Village Council’s April 16 meeting, Eric Lloyd of AMP, the Village’s municipal power cooperative, presented information on a new green pricing program, Ecosmart Choice, that AMP is offering to its members.

• Council eyes wind power

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 26, 2012

  At their April 16 meeting, Village Council members heard a presentation from Eric Lloyd of AMP, the municipal electric cooperative, regarding the Blue Creek Wind Energy Project, a new wind farm in northwest Ohio.