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: 5
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 [...]
By Sean Ryan
Wisconsin Public Service Corp. is considering furloughs and layoffs to offset declining revenue yet still supports green construction that will cut into demand for the utility’s electricity.
Barb Nick, WPS’s senior vice president of energy delivery and customer service, said the utility can absorb the immediate hit because energy efficiency projects will pay off. [...]
Published: November 2, 2009
Tags: Ashland, Bay Front, electricity, Northern States Power Company-Wisconsin, power, utility, Wisconsin Public Service Commission
ASHLAND, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Public Service Commission has approved a utility’s latest plan to replace coal and use logging residue and dead trees as the primary fuel to generate electricity.
Northern States Power Company-Wisconsin said Monday that installing the biomass gasification technology in its third operating unit at Bay Front Power Plant in Ashland [...]
Published: September 14, 2009
Tags: electricity, homebuilders, homebuyers, solar panel, Tim O’Brien Homes Inc., We Energies
Sean Ryan
sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com
Solar-shy homebuilders are following market trends that suggest a granite countertop or a hardwood floor still is an easier selling point than a rooftop sun panel.
In fact, the number of solar-powered homes built on spec — without a homebuyer already signed on — is “zero to nil” in southeastern Wisconsin, said Tim O’Brien, president [...]
Published: September 1, 2009
Tags: biomass, electricity, renewable, Rothschild, We Energies
Comments: 1
Sean Ryan
sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com
We Energies is counting on a proposed $250 million biomass plant in Rothschild to put the utility one step closer to meeting the state’s 2015 deadline to produce more renewable energy.
The plant will burn wood, sawdust and waste to generate 50 megawatts of electricity. It will be built on the same property as Domtar [...]
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