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: March 8, 2010
Tags: BendTec, coal, jobs, Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 11, solar, unemployment
By ANDY GREDER
Duluth News Tribune
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Plumber and pipefitter Brian O’Leary says he’s lucky if he gets a few days of work each fortnight.
Unemployment has been the status quo for the 50-year-old worker and more than one-third of his 480 colleagues in Duluth’s Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 11.
“It will be a week here, [...]
Published: March 2, 2010
Tags: Barber, BidBlog, blog, Edgerton City Hall, Eppstein Uhen Architects, geothermal, solar
By Keith Barber
As they should be, public buildings set standard examples of what is expected in their community.
I have always been in support of outstanding architecture in public places, and that holds true for many new techniques used in today’s construction.
Thanks to an anonymous donor, the new Edgerton City Hall project will receive $100,000 in [...]
Published: February 24, 2010
Tags: clean energy bill, Doyle, energy, jobs, nuclear, renewable energy, renewable sources, solar
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle says he’s open to approving a scaled-back clean energy bill as long as a key provision setting new renewable energy standards remains in tact.
Doyle said the crux of the sweeping measure being debated in the Legislature would require 25 percent of Wisconsin’s energy to come from renewable sources [...]
Published: February 16, 2010
Tags: common council, energy, Ingeteam, jobs, Leinenkugel, manufacturing, Marcoux, Menomonee Valley, Menomonee Valley Industrial Center, Milwaukee, MSI General, MSI General Corp., PSC, Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, renewable energy, solar, Sotes, Spain, wind, wind farm, Wisconsin Department of Commerce, Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce
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By Sean Ryan
Renewable energy requirements that will help Ingeteam Inc. thrive in Milwaukee’s Menomonee Valley are a threat to businesses already in Wisconsin, according to a statewide business group.
“Wisconsin’s not going to be able to attract businesses to our state if we continue to make electricity more expensive here than it is in other states [...]
Published: January 22, 2010
Tags: cartoon, global warming, solar, wind
By PHILIP ELLIOTT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Spurred by a disappointing new unemployment report, President Barack Obama pushed on Friday for an expanded government program he said would help create tens of thousands of new clean-technology jobs.
“It’s clear why such an effort is so important. Building a robust clean energy sector is how we will [...]
By Bob Geiger
Dolan Media Newswires
Minneapolis — Eden Prairie-based Westwood Renewables has been picked by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to design and engineer the state’s largest photovoltaic array on underutilized land.
The project is a 2-megawatt solar layout on a closed landfill in Olmsted County near Rochester. The solar array, which would be the first state [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to announce more government spending to create tens of thousands of green jobs as the nation is weighed down by an unemployment rate stuck at 10 percent.
According to the White House, Obama on Friday will announce projects that will help develop solar and wind power and energy management [...]
By MARK WILLIAMS
AP Energy Writer
An unlikely source of energy has emerged to meet international demands that the United States do more to fight global warming: It’s cleaner than coal, cheaper than oil and a 90-year supply is under our feet.
It’s natural gas, the same fossil fuel that was in such short supply a decade ago [...]
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