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 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 25, 2010
Tags: E Wind, energy, PSC, turbine, wind, Wisconsin Public Service Commission
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E Wind LLC, Columbus, Wis., has received approval to proceed with its 30-megawatt, 18-turbine wind project in Wisconsin, according to a report from North American Windpower.
The company received approval from the town of Randolph, through a joint development agreement, which was contingent on approval of the Glacier Hills Wind Farm project by the Wisconsin Public [...]
Published: January 22, 2010
Tags: cartoon, global warming, solar, wind
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
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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 Paul Snyder
The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin is expected to vote Monday afternoon on approving We Energies’ proposed Glacier Hills Wind Park in Columbia County.
If approved, the estimated $413 million wind park would include 90 turbines spread throughout the towns of Randolph and Scott and generate 162 megawatts of energy. Both towns have already [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
By JULIE PACE
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Tuesday that home insulation “is sexy,” his newest appeal for Congress to pass incentives for homeowners who make their homes more energy efficient.
“Here’s what’s sexy about it. It saves money,” the president said at a Northern Virginia Home Depot store.
He was joined at the [...]
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