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As new head of Focus on Energy, Stefanik sees plenty of room for more energy efficiency
Lisa Stefanik traces her drive to protect the environment and help find ways to save energy to her growing up on a family farm in Green County’s village of Albany.
Stefanik to lead to Focus on Energy
Focus on Energy, Wisconsin’s energy-efficiency program, is welcoming a new managing director: Lisa Stefanik. Stefanik returns to the program after spending eight years in implementation, advisory and evaluation roles in […]
Focus on Energy issues RFP for energy-efficiency program
Focus on Energy is looking to help pay for large energy-efficiency projects in the state.
Focus on Energy gets more money to push energy efficiency
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.
Industry comes up short in resistance to Focus on Energy bill
Several of Wisconsin’s biggest construction and design firms have lost their campaign to halt legislation that they warn will take $7 million a year out of a program meant to promote conservation and renewable energy.
Wisconsin among growing list of states scaling back solar incentives
Wisconsin is on its way to joining other states that are curtailing incentives to encourage the use of solar-energy equipment, leaving installers around the state to wonder what’s next for their businesses.
Miron, Graef, others speak out against proposed cut to Focus on Energy program
Miron Construction has put its name on a memorandum calling on state lawmakers to not support a bill provision that would greatly curtail the amount of money set aside every year for a program that subsidizes renewable-energy and energy-efficiency projects.
State to continue renewable-energy rebates
Renewable-energy advocates breathed a partial sigh of relief Tuesday when state regulators leaned toward continuing to offer rebates on solar arrays, wind turbines and similar projects.
Regulators defend renewable energy cuts
Wisconsin regulators are defending a decision to cut renewable energy funding from a popular utilities program despite criticism from businesses around the state.
Study: More than 300 Wis. companies involved in solar, wind energy
The Environmental Law and Policy Center’s new study of Wisconsin’s solar and wind energy supply chain has found that 171 Wisconsin companies are part of the wind energy supply chain, and 135 companies in the state are part of the solar energy supply chain.
Software firm invests in solar ‘farm’
By THOMAS CONTENT Milwaukee Journal Sentinel VERONA, Wis. (AP) — By the end of the year, the largest solar project yet built in Wisconsin will take shape in the rolling […]
Contractors stuck waiting for Milwaukee program benefits
By Jack Zemlicka A city of Milwaukee program offering residents an opportunity to improve the energy efficiency of their homes while providing work for local contractors has been slow to […]
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- Milwaukee County breaks ground on first health and human services center
- Where are the homes? Glaring need for housing construction underlined by Century 21 CEO
- Lawmakers block update for new commercial building standards
- Milwaukee mayor’s $1.9B budget proposal has infrastructure boost
- As employers face labor shortages, Biden administration rolls out playbook for training workers
- Wisconsin Senate committee votes against confirmation for four DNR policy board appointees
- October proclaimed Architecture Awareness Month in Wisconsin
- Pre-Bid Meetings – Week of October 2, 2023
- Corn mill owners plead to federal charges in fatal explosion, will pay $11.25 million
- BUILDING BLOCKS: Second phase of Lower Yahara River Trail construction
- Sky-high mortgage rates leave homes unaffordable for more buyers, sending new home sales tumbling
- Forecast: Economic challenges ahead as rates rise and labor shortages remain
Project Profiles
- First prefabricated bridge in US installed in Eau Claire County
- Illinois developer worked with Wisconsin contractor to build 258-unit Wauwatosa apartment complex
- VJS Construction raises the roof for Bruce Guadalupe Community School expansion project
- Microgrid pilot project will store energy for village affected by outages
- Dane County sees uptick in highway work zone crashes, on track to exceed last year
- The Hop streetcar will debut newest service route in fall with limited service
- FPC Live slims venue proposal to 1 downtown building
- Children’s Hospital urgent care center in Milwaukee gets first round of city approval
- With Sonag Construction shut down, feds move to block indicted owner from collecting leftover assets
- Four contractors selected to build border wall prototypes
- UW-Milwaukee’s Greenstreet shaping minds (and the city)
- Turning the Corner(s) (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)
