By Jeanine Kendle Compiled by MARC KOVAC Dix Capital Bureau COLUMBUS -- Statehouse developments related to Substitute Senate Bill 221, legislation revising the state's energy policies related to electricity and renewable/advanced energy resources: No committee meeting The House's Public Utilities Committee, headed by Alliance Republican John Hagan, was not scheduled to meet during this week.

By Jim Siegel, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Apr. 11--House Republican leaders unveiled their long-awaited electricity-regulation plan yesterday, promising it will ensure adequate supply, protect consumers from price spikes and set the table for increased green-energy production.

By Dennis J. Willard, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Apr. 11--COLUMBUS -- The Ohio House energy bill unveiled Thursday gives public utilities a stronger hand in deciding whether to opt for having their rates set by the state or move to an open, retail market.

By Jeanine Kendle Compiled by MARC KOVAC Dix Capital Bureau COLUMBUS -- Statehouse developments related to Substitute Senate Bill 221, legislation revising the state's energy policies related to electricity and renewable/advanced energy resources: New bill House Speaker Jon Husted, a Republican from Kettering, announced the introduction of a new bill that would establish benchmarks for renewable and advanced energy usage and efficiency efforts and the creation of a state fund to provide incentives for green energy growth.

By Jim Siegel, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Feb. 23--Supporters of an energy-regulation bill stalled in the Ohio House may have a rallying cry, now that the state has been removed from a list of those under consideration as a site for a proposed 500-employee steel plant.