Saving energy a priority, poll finds

Technology propels ‘old energy’ boom

Published: May 10, 2013
Tags: energy, fossil fuel, fracking, oil, solar energy, wind turbines

Technology created an energy revolution during the past decade, just not the one we expected.

Energy Department nominee backs natural gas ‘revolution’

Published: April 9, 2013
Tags: energy, Ernest Moniz, fracking, natural gas, Obama

President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the Energy Department pledged to increase use of natural gas Tuesday as a way to combat climate change even as the nation seeks to boost domestic energy production.

Biomass plant on track to generate power late 2013

Published: April 8, 2013
Tags: biomass, energy, Rothschild biomass plant, We Energies

A $250 million biomass plant in central Wisconsin is on track to begin generating power late this year.

Trial by tire: Cement co. uses alternative source for energy

Published: January 9, 2013
Tags: cement, coal, emissions, energy, EPA

First there’s a hissing sound as a gate opens to expose the glowing orange inferno burning within the maw of the Kosmos Cement kiln.

Natural gas drillers target truck, bus market

Published: December 4, 2012
Tags: energy, natural gas

If the trash truck or bus rolling down your street seems a little quieter these days, you’re not imagining things. It’s probably running on natural gas.

Millions of dollars in green energy grants unused

Published: November 5, 2012
Tags: energy, federal government, green energy, stimulus

Millions of dollars in federal grants and loans for property owners in Madison, Milwaukee and Racine still are unused more than two years into a program to help homes and businesses become energy efficient.

Coal fire at We Energies brought under control

Published: November 5, 2012
Tags: coal, energy, Fire, We Energies

A coal fire at a We Energies power plant on Milwaukee County Grounds in Wauwatosa is under control but expected to burn for several days.

Without buyer, Dominion to close Kewaunee power plant

Published: October 22, 2012
Tags: Dominion Resources, energy, Kewaunee Power Station, nuclear power, Scott Walker, Wisconsin Power & Light, Wisconsin Public Service Corp.

Dominion Resources Inc. said Monday that it plans to close and decommission its Kewaunee Power Station in Wisconsin after it was unable to find a buyer for the nuclear power plant.

Renewable credits? Don’t count on them

Published: August 20, 2012
Tags: energy, renewable energy, solar, wind energy

The federal incentives that aided the renewable energy industry’s growth in the last decade are coming to an end, even if President Obama, a proponent, is re-elected, according to a pair of energy sector attorneys who spoke at the Renewable Energy in the Midwest seminar in Minneapolis last week.