Aaron LeMieux will join Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign for SB221 enforcement

Created on Friday, 28 October 2011 16:39

In 2008, Ohio passed SB221 to move Ohio electricity production toward green energy.  The Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign will hold a press conference on Tuesday, November 1, at Willard Park in downtown Cleveland, to ask the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to enforce SB221's clean energy standards, and help foster clean energy innovation in Northeast Ohio.

Our founder, inventor, and CEO Aaron LeMieux, will join the Sierra Club and members of the community, including Cleveland City Councilman Brian Cummins, to call on the PUCO to enforce SB221.  

"Ohio energy company shareholders have an opportunity to lead the market for clean energy, by investing in new, cleaner ways to produce electricity," said LeMieux.  "For example, as an electricity provider in the industrial Midwest, First Energy is perfectly positioned to not only provide their customers with clean energy while complying with SB221, but also create the manufacturing jobs their customers need.  Tremont Electric stands ready to work in partnership toward all those goals."

Aaron LeMieux invented the patented nPower® kinetic energy harvesting technology, after seeking a solution for saddle sores while hiking the Appalchian Trail in 1996.  A mechanical engineer, LeMieux worked in business crisis management and turnaround, before founding in 2007 Tremont Electric, creator of the nPower® Personal Energy Generator (PEG), the world's first passive kinetic energy recharging device for personal hand-held electronics, and the patented nPower® Wave Energy Converter (WEC), a commercial scale application for harvesting the kinetic energy of waves on open water, such as Lake Erie, to pump clean, zero emissions electricity to the grid.