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 ...

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By JASON DEAREN Associated Press Writer LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of trash trucks across California are rumbling down city streets using clean fuel made from a dirty source: garbage. The fuel is derived from rotting refuse that San Francisco ...

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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. ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Winter’s first major snow storm has knocked out power to thousands of people across the state. Alliant Energy officials said the storm cut power to about 22,000 people in southern Wisconsin. The lights were still off ...

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By Sean Ryan Wisconsin Public Service Corp. is considering furloughs and layoffs to offset declining revenue yet still supports green construction that will cut into demand for the utility’s electricity. Barb Nick, WPS’s senior vice president of energy delivery and ...

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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 ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Solar-shy homebuilders are following market trends that suggest a granite countertop or a hardwood floor still is an easier selling point than a rooftop sun panel. In fact, the number of solar-powered homes built on spec — ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com We Energies is counting on a proposed $250 million biomass plant in Rothschild to put the utility one step closer to meeting the state’s 2015 deadline to produce more renewable energy. The plant will burn wood, sawdust ...

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Nataliya Vasilyeva AP Writer Moscow — An accident during repair work at Russia’s largest hydroelectric plant on Monday killed at least 10 workers, while as many as 65 others were missing after an engine room was suddenly flooded, officials said. ...

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H. Josef Hebert Washington (AP) — Climate change legislation before Congress would boost electricity prices by about 20 percent by 2030, although most of the increases wouldn’t begin until after 2020, a government analysis concluded this week. According to the ...

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