Published: March 12, 2010
Tags: ABC, AGC, Associated Builders and Contractors, Associated General Contractors, bill, Boetcher, Clean Energy Jobs Act, Helios USA, IBEW, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Wisconsin, Manley, Ostrenga, PSC, Public Service Commission, renewable energy, solar, Todd Stuart, wind, WMC
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By Sean Ryan
A manufacturer and union predict more construction work from a state renewable energy bill, while business groups argue the measure would drive jobs out of Wisconsin.
The bill would support energy-conservation projects by increasing the amount the state charges ratepayers. It also would set a 2025 deadline for 25 percent of state electricity to [...]
Published: February 3, 2010
Tags: Holland, Invenergy LLC, PSC, Public Service Commission, wind farm, wind turbines
HOLLAND, Wis. (AP) — The Holland Town Board has voted in favor of a one-year ban on wind farm construction, but it’s unclear if that’s enough to stop a planned project.
The Green Bay Press-Gazette reports the board voted 3-0 on Monday for the ban and increased the setback for wind turbines from neighboring properties to [...]
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 [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Electric customers in Dane County will have to pay more.
Madison Gas & Electric had asked the state Public Service Commission for permission to raise electric rates by about $17 million. The commission has approved a $12 million increase. That translates to about $2.25 more per month for the average residential customer.
The [...]
We Energies will dedicate $96 million a year for Lake Michigan research and projects and $2.5 million to greenhouse gas studies under an agreement approved by the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin on Thursday.
The payments are part of a settlement agreement the utility signed in August 2008 with Clean Wisconsin and the Sierra Club. 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
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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 [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State regulators have approved higher electric and natural gas rates for Wisconsin Power & Light customers.
The Public Service Commission approved a $60 million increase in electric rates. That will translate to about $6.10 more a month for the typical residential customer.
The commission also raised WP&L’s gas rates by about $5.5 million. [...]
Published: November 24, 2009
Tags: American Transmission, American Transmission Co. LLC, Justus, Pleasant Springs, PSC, Public Service Commission, Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, Richard Green, Weidemann-Smith, Wisconsin Department of Transportation
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By Paul Snyder
Through years of hearings on an estimated $220 million transmission line between Rockdale and West Middleton, Pleasant Springs leaders said nothing.
Now, almost six months after the state approved the project, they want to be heard.
“Basically, until the (Public Service Commission of Wisconsin) made the determination not to take the southern route for the [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — We Energies customers will face bigger electric bills.
The state Public Service Commission has approved a $90 million rate increase for We Energies subsidiary Wisconsin Electric Power Company, or WEPCO. That translates to $5 more a month for the average residential customer.
The utility had asked to raise rates by $190 million, citing [...]
Published: September 14, 2009
Tags: AgWind Energy Partners, Assembly, Emerging Energies of Wisconsin, Public Service Commission, RENEW Wisconsin, Senate, We Energies' Blue Sky Green Field, wind farms, Wisconsin
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Todd Richmond
AP Writer
Madison — Ron Winn had an idea in 2006 for a section of ridgeline he owned in Ettrick in western Wisconsin. Wind mills. Big ones.
Winn and other landowners formed AgWind Energy Partners. They got permission from Trempealeau County to set up survey towers to measure wind speeds, with an eye toward one day [...]
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