Ohio's electric bills are high -- and so are utility CEO salaries
In February, Ohioans’ electricity bills were up 22% compared to a year earlier. That was the sharpest increase of any state except for Virginia, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency.
Despite increasing costs for consumers, Ohio’s Republican leadership incentivizes construction of the centers with huge tax breaks paid for by those same consumers.
And already in the throes of an affordability crisis, ratepayers also shelled out tens of millions last year to pay the salaries of utility executives who each make as much as many hundreds of Ohioans.
According to a new report by the Energy & Policy Institute, CEOs of the four electric utilities serving Ohio made a combined $81 million last year.
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And Ramaswamy is only going to make it much worse if they vote him in. And Husted should be 50 points behind Brown instead of tied in the polls since Husted was right in the middle of the First Energy bribery scandal. But, it’s Magaland in Ohio …..
