In the nearly two decades since he founded Arch Electric in a garage in Plymouth, Ed Zinthefer has been riding what he likes to call a “solar coaster.”
Arch Electric of Sheboygan recently wrapped up work on a 7.5-acre solar array at a Shawano County dairy farm, completing the largest privately owned solar project in the state.
Although Wisconsin's fast-growing solar energy industry isn't going dark amid the COVID-19 outbreak, it is nonetheless contending with dampened demand for some projects and pondering questions about what might have been.
The brand new solar array that Jerry Erjavec installed on his garage at his home finally began to live up to its promise last month after a brutal winter and tepid spring.
We Energies has asked Wisconsin regulators for permission to impose an additional fee on customers who use solar panels, a step that an industry group argues could discourage people from installing renewable-energy projects.
A new city of Milwaukee policy change passed on Wednesday could help lessen the sticker shock caused by solar-panel systems for sale to developers and homeowners.
For the fourth year of a program meant to encourage more property owners to make use of solar-generation equipment, local officials are offering installation incentives throughout Milwaukee rather than just particular neighborhoods.