Published: January 27, 2010
Tags: Alliant Energy, Bent Tree Wind Farm, Citizens Utility Board of Wisconsin, Citizens' Utility Board, CUB, Dane County Circuit Court, Godfrey & Kahn SC, Heinzen, Higley, lawsuit, PSC, Public Service Commission, Schultz, Stuart, WIEG, wind farms, Wisconsin Industrial Energy Group, Wisconsin Power & Light
By Paul Snyder
A lawsuit over Wisconsin’s approval of a Minnesota wind farm threatens to delay the construction start and drive up the project cost.
“At this point, we anticipate construction will begin this spring, so we hope the case plays out in a timely manner,” said Steven Schultz, spokesman for Alliant Energy, the utility developing the [...]
Published: December 2, 2009
Tags: bill, Callisto, Carbon-Free, Citizens' Utility Board, Clean Wisconsin Inc., CUB, dumping, global warming, Governor’s Task Force on Global Warming, Higley, Huebsch, nuclear, nuclear power plant, Nuclear-Free Wisconsin Coalition, power plant, Public Service Commission, Sierra Club, Soletski, Task Force on Global Warming, waste
Comments: 8
By Paul Snyder
State lawmakers preparing global warming legislation are feeling the fallout from a clean energy coalition’s opposition to a nuclear power plant bill.
State Rep. Jim Soletski, D-Green Bay, is one of four lawmakers developing the global warming legislation based on recommendations made last year by the Governor’s Task Force on Global Warming. The task [...]
Published: July 8, 2009
Tags: Alliant Energy, Citizens' Utility Board, electricity, Freeborn County, Minnesota, Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, state regulators, turbine, utility, Wind Capital Group LLC, wind farm, Wisconsin Power & Light Co.
Comments: 1
Elizabeth Dunbar and Todd Richmond
AP Writers
Madison — State regulators plan to vote Thursday on a Wisconsin utility’s plans to build a massive wind farm in southern Minnesota.
Wisconsin Power & Light Co., a subsidiary of Madison-based Alliant Energy, wants permission to start the first phase of the farm on 32,500 acres just north of Albert Lea [...]
