Published: June 24, 2010
Tags: AECOM, Board of Supervisors, Dane County, digester, electricity, food waste, Kathleen Falk, Rodefeld
Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk on Thursday announced that AECOM, a global engineering company, will perform a feasibility study for the county on turning food waste into electricity.
The first phase of AECOM’s feasibility study will be completed this fall. It will explore both the financial benefits and renewable energy potential of food waste from commercial, [...]
Published: June 14, 2010
Tags: AgWind Energy Partners, ARM Group, Bryan Wheler, decibel, EcoEnergy, electricity, Jason Yates, Naleid, noise, setback, shadow flicker, turbines, wind farm, Wind Siting Council, Zweizig
Comments: 2
By Paul Snyder
Environmental consultants can count the minutes a home is affected by the strobelike flickers of a wind turbine’s shadow.
They can measure the decibels of the rhythmic thrum of turbine blades cutting through the air.
They can use those flicker and sound measurements to determine the best placement for wind farms.
But, wind farm developers argue, [...]
Published: June 7, 2010
Tags: coal, Department of Administration, Doyle, electricity, Environment, LEED, Senate Bill 616, sustainable building
A green buildings bill recently vetoed by Gov. Jim Doyle is the latest example of well-intended environmental efforts getting ahead of themselves.
Doyle’s veto killed Senate Bill 616, which would have directed all funds available under the authorized state building program toward the goal of meeting Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards for at least [...]
Published: June 6, 2010
Tags: AllianceFederated Energy, blog, electricity, energy, Hot Topics, Milwaukee, plant, plasma gasification, Project Apollo, RENEW Wisconsin, renewable energy, thompson, trash, Waukesha Environmental Action League
Comments: 3
By Chris Thompson
editor
The friction caused by the furious hand-wringing over plasma gasification could, in itself, be considered a form of renewable energy.
Published: February 3, 2010
Tags: AFE, Alliance Federated Energy, bio-fuels, electricity, jobs, Milwaukee, renewable energy, waste, Westinghouse Plasma Corp.
Alliance Federated Energy LLC, Milwaukee, on Monday announced the development of Project Apollo, a 25-megawatt renewable energy project to be located in Milwaukee.
Project Apollo plans to use Westinghouse Plasma Corp.’s plasma gasification technology to process municipal and industrial wastes into renewable energy. Because there is no combustion, the waste is not burned but converted into [...]
Published: January 22, 2010
Tags: blog, Columbia County, electricity, energy, Glacier Hills, Hot Topics, PSC, Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, renewable energy, We Energies, wind farm, Yovino
Comments: 1
By Joe Yovino
web editor
In the near future, residents of northeast Columbia County could see a skyline inhabited with large windmill-looking things spinning in the distance.
Published: January 20, 2010
Tags: American Transmission, electricity, energy, Glacier Hills Wind Park, grid, Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, RENEW Wisconsin, transmission, Upper Midwest Transmission Development Initiative, We Energies, wind, wind farm
Comments: 7
By Melissa Rigney Baxter
Special to The Daily Reporter
The multimillion-dollar construction projects to get the blades spinning won’t mean much if there’s no way to transmit wind farm electricity.
So far in Wisconsin, transmission has been less of a problem than local approvals and harnessing the wind, but that could change as the state reaches farther west [...]
By JASON DEAREN
Associated Press Writer
LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of trash trucks across California are rumbling down city streets using clean fuel made from a dirty source: garbage.
The fuel is derived from rotting refuse that San Francisco and Oakland residents and businesses have been discarding in the Altamont landfill since 1980. Since November, the methane [...]
By RYAN J. FOLEY
Associated Press Writer
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle has backed off a campaign promise that four University of Wisconsin campuses will be energy independent by 2012 after determining it was not practical as proposed.
Weeks before he was re-elected in 2006, Doyle said campuses would “go off the grid” by becoming the [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Winter’s first major snow storm has knocked out power to thousands of people across the state.
Alliant Energy officials said the storm cut power to about 22,000 people in southern Wisconsin. The lights were still off for about 17,500 customers, including about 9,000 in Janesville, on Wednesday morning.
We Energies officials said about [...]
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