Questions
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If your ground is rural there is a good chance a cooperative serves you. Ohio has twenty four of them reaching 77 of the state's 88 counties, and they are supplied by Buckeye Power. It matters because the cooperative and Buckeye Power are the parties a project has to work with, which is a different set of conversations to dealing with AEP Ohio. Your bill names your provider.
That question got asked hard in Ohio and it changed things. AEP Ohio proposed and the state commission adopted an arrangement putting more of the cost of serving very large loads onto those loads rather than onto everybody else, and Buckeye Power has done something similar for the cooperatives. It is a legitimate question and there is now a real answer to it, which is worth having before a township meeting rather than after.
Yes, and more so than a year or two ago. Substantial transmission is being built into southern and Appalachian Ohio, and that changes what is possible in counties that were previously too far from capacity. Distance from Columbus is not the disqualifier it used to be.
There is no single number and anybody who gives you one without seeing your ground is guessing. Whether it is contiguous, and what runs near it electrically, matters far more than the total. A smaller farm near real capacity beats a larger one that is not.
Do not sign, and do not treat a deadline in the letter as binding on you. Establish whether they are buying for themselves or for somebody they have not named. Have an Ohio attorney read it before you agree to anything. That applies to a letter from us exactly as much as from anyone else.
It might change. Legislation has been introduced to end it and the argument has held up other data center bills at the Statehouse. As things stand it is in force, but we would rather you knew the position was live than assumed it was settled.
Frequently nothing. Plenty of arrangements involve part of a property while the remainder carries on being farmed as before. It is a reasonable thing to raise in the first conversation and we would far rather you did.
Tell us about your property. There is no cost and no obligation. If it does not fit, we will tell you plainly.
These take about two minutes. Skip anything you do not know. Guessing is fine.
Thank you. We will review the property and come back to you with a plain answer either way, including if it does not fit.