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Wisconsin added nearly 1,800 new clean-energy jobs last year despite a slowing of growth in the industry nationwide, according to a new report.
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Read More »Wind-turbines proposal whips up dispute in rural Wisconsin
Cindy Blanc, 57, and her 61-year-old husband, Peter Minucci, are freelance musicians who moved to 5 acres in the countryside in south central Wisconsin for the scenic views and serenity.
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Read More »Regulators OK projects promising to increase solar generation five fold
Wisconsin utility regulators on Thursday approved a series of solar-energy proposals that renewable-energy advocates contend will lead to a five-fold increase in solar generation in the state.
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Read More »Big solar project splits farmers and clean energy proponents
Bob Bishop is a 61-year-old farmer living in dairy country in southwestern Wisconsin but will stop raising cows because falling dairy prices have put his industry at serious risk.
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Read More »Even with historic solar projects on horizon, Evers says state has much work to do
Gov. Tony Evers told a room full of renewable-energy advocates on Thursday that solar projects and similar installations that flooded into Wisconsin in 2018 occurred even as many state policies continued to ignore, rather than embrace, science and innovation.
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Read More »Solar project divides rural Wisconsin county
Residents in a rural Wisconsin county are split over a Chicago developer's plan to work with two Wisconsin utilities to build a solar farm that would include more than 1 million solar panels.
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Read More »Rural northern Wisconsin logs record-setting solar group buy
Growing plants year-round is not easy near the often-frigid, wind-swept Chequamegon Bay of Lake Superior.
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Read More »Solar panel grants support nonprofit sustainability projects
More than a dozen Wisconsin groups will get a boost in installing solar electric systems from a series of grants awarded by the nonprofit group Renew Wisconsin.
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Read More »State gives preliminary OK to $5.5 million a year for renewable projects
The Wisconsin Public Service Commission has given a preliminary approval to a proposal that would have more than $20 million from a state energy-efficiency program go to renewable-energy projects.
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Read More »Some call it lobbying; For Boullion, it’s simply education
Prevailing wages played a big part in both the highest high points and lowest low points of Jim Boullion’s lobbying career.
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