Ohio power-siting definition of a major utility facility
Ohio's current power-siting definition treats an electric generating plant of fifty megawatts or more as a major utility facility. The official page dates this section text 14 August 2025. The certificate duty in section 4906.04 has a different effective date and is a separate record.
- Category
- Laws, rules and executive directives
- Status
- In effect
- Instrument
- statute · Ohio Rev. Code § 4906.01
- Issued by
- Ohio General Assembly
- Jurisdiction
- Ohio
- Affects
- Siting
- In effect from
- 14 Aug 2025 · actual · day
- Expiry or completion
- None recorded
- Operative text
- Ohio Revised Code section 4906.01 (Official section page opened 4 October 2026)
- Last checked · next review
- 2026-10-04 · 2027-04-15
Legal and geographic scope
Official compilation of the power-siting definitions. A major utility facility includes an electric generating plant and associated facilities designed for, or capable of, operation at fifty megawatts or more. The page prints an effective date of 14 August 2025 and names House Bill 15 of the 136th General Assembly as the latest legislation. The opened section does not use the word nuclear.
Not approved or still pending
The definition is general generation siting law. It does not name a nuclear technology or certificate any project. House Bill 15 itself was not opened. The Ohio nuclear chapter already published separately is Chapter 4164.
Dated lifecycle
- 14 Aug 2025 · actual · day · Took effect — The official section page prints Effective August 14, 2025. That date is not the effective date of section 4906.04. (Ohio Revised Code section 4906.01)
Definitions in this instrument
- Major utility facility (Ohio Rev. Code § 4906.01(B)(1)(a)): Includes an electric generating plant and associated facilities designed for, or capable of, operation at a capacity of fifty megawatts or more.
Legal definition used by this instrument only; SMRMap's inclusion rule for SMRs is separate and unchanged.
Projects or designs named by the source
- None. Location in this jurisdiction does not make a project eligible for, or approved under, this measure.
Sources
- Ohio Revised Code section 4906.01 (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-04)