Nationwide to pay $5.5M over breach
Nationwide has agreed to pay $5.5 million to 33 states to settle an investigation over a data breach in 2012 that exposed information belonging to 1.27 million consumers, the New York attorney general said Wednesday.
The breach exposed Social Security numbers, driver license numbers, credit scoring information and other personal data that had been collected to provide quotes to consumers applying for coverage, said Eric Schneiderman, New York attorney general.
transported over long distances. (For some perspective, Ohio wind farms have more than 500 megawatts.)
Almost all of the Ohio’s new distributed wind energy last year came from one project — a single turbine with capacity of 1.5 megawatts in Harpster, developed at a Marathon Petroleum pipeline pump station. The developer was One Energy, a Findlay company that is a big player in this part of the market.
While Ohio was among the leaders in new wind project construction last year, the state’s total was way down from the prior year, when there were 7.7 megawatts built.
“That was a quirk of scheduling,” said Jereme Kent, general manager for One Energy. “You’re going to steadily see the numbers ramp up going forward.”
A megawatt is enough electricity to provide for the needs of roughly 1,000 houses. However, an intermittent resource such as wind is operating at less than its full capacity much of the time.
Kent uses a different analogy: A 1.5 megawatt turbine in a windy region such as northwestern Ohio will generate enough electricity in a year to offset the needs of 300 to 500 houses.
His expectations for 2017 are based on the pace of his company’s projects and the rising popularity of companies choosing to install wind turbines to help offset electricity costs.
Honda, for example,