Ohio GOP voters support green energy, efficiency programs and customer choice

Ohio's Republican voters and conservative independents are greener than state politicians might have believed. They strongly support green energy and want to see more of it in Ohio, a new poll of only Republican and conservative independents has determined.The poll also found:That 82 percent of these conservative voters want the state to keep on requiring electric utilities to provide efficiency programs that help consumers cut their monthly bills.That 85 percent want the state to continue the policy that gives them the right the choose their own power suppliers, even after hearing about their utility's concerns about the option.That 87 percent want utilities to continue crediting customers who have home solar systems for excess power they generate. That 74 percent would increase research and development of battery storage technologies to increase the use of renewable power.That 72 percent would advise Republican candidates to support energy efficiency and renewable energy policies.