Published: May 14, 2010
Tags: Baumann, business, Eau Claire, farm, phosphorus, Pippenger, pollution, runoff, Scott Manley, utility, water, Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, Wisconsin Natural Resources Board, Zimmerman
By Sean Ryan
Utilities and businesses are claiming the state is digging too deeply into their wallets to prevent polluted water from entering lakes and streams.
The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board next month will consider two rules: one targeting phosphorus from industrial and wastewater plants, and another requiring municipalities and farms reduce runoff.
But wastewater utilities and businesses [...]
Published: April 9, 2010
Tags: amendment, Boycks, Clean Energy Jobs Act, development, Gunderson, Huebsch, Mike Sheridan, nuclear, Phil Montgomery, Rebekah Sweeney, Soletski, Task Force on Global Warming, utility, Wisconsin Builders Association
Comments: 1
By Paul Snyder
The mystery surrounding changes to the state’s Clean Energy Jobs Act is sowing distrust among lawmakers who fear new policy with no input.
“I don’t have a major problem if the changes are based on what was talked about during public hearings, but I’m not convinced that’s what’s going to happen,” said state Rep. [...]
Published: March 11, 2010
Tags: Emerald Park Landfill, Hawk Construction, Jones Island, methane, Mike Martin, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, Muskego, pipeline, sewer treatment plant, Spoerl, utility, Zywicki
By Sean Ryan
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District engineers are trying to line up an alternative methane pipeline route to avoid the trouble of building through a dense urban area.
“The closer we get into the city, a number of issues come up,” said Mike Martin, MMSD technical services director. “It’s just purely the congestion because of utilities [...]
Published: March 3, 2010
Tags: bill, Bruenig, expansion, Highway 12, Hilgenberg, Merrimac, Richard Marks, Sauk City, Schultz, utility, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, WisDOT
By Paul Snyder
Sauk City refuses to let the state expand Highway 12 within village borders until someone comes up with more than $1 million to move the sewer, water and electric lines under the road.
“We feel if the state is going to do this project and come in and tell us it’s going to be [...]
Published: February 15, 2010
Tags: Carrie Lewis, Cromwell, Franklin, Franklin Water Utility, infrastructure, John Bennett, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Water Works, Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, replacement, Stratus Consulting, utility, water pipe
By Sean Ryan
Franklin can afford to wait as its neighbor to the north scrambles for money to deal with a growing roster of water pipe replacement projects.
“We really don’t have old water mains, so we just don’t have the problem,” said John Bennett, Franklin director of public works. “We probably won’t have the problems Milwaukee [...]
Published: November 2, 2009
Tags: biomass, drunk driving, PSC, Rodgers, Strey, utility
Wisconsin PSC approves utility’s biomass plan
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — A northern Wisconsin utility’s latest plan to replace coal with logging waste and dead trees as its primary fuel to generate electricity has been approved by the state Public Service Commission.
Northern States Power Company-Wisconsin, a subsidiary of Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy, said Monday that installing the biomass [...]
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: October 23, 2009
Tags: Dorner Inc., explosion, gas pipe, Oconomowoc, osha, safety, underground construction, utility
Sean Ryan
sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com
Dorner Inc.’s low bid for an Oconomowoc utility project is testing the subjectivity of a city safety review that determines if a contractor is qualified.
Oconomowoc established the review after Dorner crews in April 2008 moved a gas pipe, causing a gas leak and subsequent explosion that destroyed a church and two homes on West [...]
Published: July 16, 2009
Tags: Alliant Energy, RENEW Wisconsin, renewable energy, turbine, utility, We Energies, wind farm, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Power & Light Co., Wisconsin Public Service Corp.
Comments: 1
Paul Snyder
paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com
Wisconsin utilities have a track record of building, operating and maintaining their own wind farms, leaving independent producers little reason to build in the state.
But when those same utilities build wind farms in other states, Wisconsin’s economy and construction work force suffer, said Michael Vickerman, executive director of RENEW Wisconsin.
“There’s quite a lot of [...]
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 [...]
