COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An Ohio-based utility says groups that originally supported a plan to distribute energy-efficient light bulbs flip flopped when customers complained.
Akron-based FirstEnergy says it had built support among 40 interested parties, including the state utilities' watchdog, only to see that support vanish as protests grew about the plan.
FirstEnergy spokeswoman Ellen Raines says the company put a process together specifically to reach a consensus on the plan. The light bulb plan backfired when it was learned that the recipients would not only have to pay for the bulbs, but also pay the utility for the electricity they wouldn't be using.
FirstEnergy will make its case for the plan before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio on Wednesday. Ohio Consumers' Counsel Janine Migden-Ostrander says she was never in support of the bulb distribution program.
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