The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has blocked American Electric Power Co. Inc. from raising customers rates to finance what could be the state’s largest solar farm.
In a decision rendered Thursday, PUCO shot down AEP Ohio’s plan increase charges to customers so that it could underwrite two new solar farms in Highland County: the 300-megawatt Highland Solar Farm and the 100-megawatt Willowbrook Solar Farm.
In its decision, PUCO said the company “did not demonstrate the need for the facilities,…