The $500,000 grant will go to energy efficiency and renewables projects for low-income homeowners in southeast Wisconsin.

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Madison officials introduced an ordinance to require benchmarks and tune-ups for large-scale commercial buildings as part of an effort to reduce carbon emissions.

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Living off-grid conjures images of survivalists in remote places and a rustic, “Little House on the Prairie” lifestyle with chores from morning to night. Yet only a tiny fraction of people living off-grid do it like that, and fewer still live more than an hour from any town.

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Cudahy-based ATI was recently honored with a 2021 Energy Efficiency Excellence Award for significantly reducing energy and lighting consumption at its Forged Products operation, improving worker safety and productivity in the process.

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Bills in the state legislature would undo a thousand-year ban on a previous policy that had allowed school districts to raise cash without a voter referendum for energy-efficiency projects.

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A proposed ordinance would penalize business owners in Madison who leave their doors and windows open too long while running air conditioners.

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A former project manager for a company that has done tens of millions of dollars in energy-efficiency work for a number of U.S. government agencies agreed to plead guilty to charges he took more than $2.5 million worth of kickbacks from subcontractors across the country and in the Caribbean, court documents say.

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Milwaukee County moved closer this week to establishing a loan program to encourage developers to install energy-saving projects.

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As Wisconsin’s Focus on Energy program moves into 2017 with more money for renewable-energy incentives, state officials are shining the spotlight on work done to make buildings save power.

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A state official is calling for less time spent projecting the savings from public energy-efficiency projects and more time spent measuring the actual results.

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