{"content":[{"text":"Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel","bbox":{"left":0.191765,"top":0.048186,"width":0.3721230000000001,"height":0.027687999999999997}},{"text":"Before \n The Ohio Senate \n Public Utilities Committee","bbox":{"left":0.360786,"top":0.158826,"width":0.281765,"height":0.06940200000000002}},{"text":"Testimony on Senate Bill 128","bbox":{"left":0.360786,"top":0.257467,"width":0.31361500000000003,"height":0.020152000000000003}},{"text":"Presented \n by \n Bruce Weston","bbox":{"left":0.444107,"top":0.306718,"width":0.15224100000000002,"height":0.06954300000000002}},{"text":"On Behalf of the \n Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel","bbox":{"left":0.305474,"top":0.405359,"width":0.41836799999999996,"height":0.04469699999999999}},{"text":"October 24, 2017","bbox":{"left":0.421549,"top":0.479295,"width":0.186151,"height":0.020152000000000003}},{"text":"Hello Chair Beagle, Vice-Chair LaRose, Ranking Minority Member Williams, and members","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.563409,"width":0.782356,"height":0.020818000000000003}},{"text":"of the Committee. Thank you for this opportunity to testify. And I thank the bill sponsors for","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.598106,"width":0.7828109999999999,"height":0.020818000000000003}},{"text":"the opportunity for a dialogue on these issues.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.632955,"width":0.40113899999999997,"height":0.020818000000000003}},{"text":"I am the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel, the representative of Ohio residential utility consumers,","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.683561,"width":0.793687,"height":0.020818000000000003}},{"text":"including the electric consumers affected by Senate Bill 128 (Bill). I respectfully recommend","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.718258,"width":0.792473,"height":0.020818000000000003}},{"text":"that you protect millions of Ohio electric consumers from paying higher electric bills, by not","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.753106,"width":0.78271,"height":0.020818000000000003}},{"text":"enacting the Bill. The Bill would result in at least two million Ohioans subsidizing nuclear","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.787954,"width":0.762019,"height":0.020818000000000003}},{"text":"power plants owned by FirstEnergy and others. (Bill lines 139-162)","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.822803,"width":0.5779020000000001,"height":0.020818000000000003}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.055882,"top":0.039331,"width":0.111438,"height":0.087965}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.055882,"top":0.039331,"width":0.111438,"height":0.087965}]}