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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.