The energy sector will play a crucial role in the future of Ohio’s economic development, industry leaders and politicians agree, especially as petrochemical and gas-powered energy plants come online in the coming years. Since the beginning of the exploration in the Utica shale in 2006, the economic value added of the energy industry in Ohio has totaled $37.9 billion, according to the executive director of the Consumer Energy Alliance’s mid-Atlantic region, Mike Butler.
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