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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RENEW Wisconsin has named Jim Boullion, a former lobbyist for the Associated General Contractors of Wisconsin lobbyist, the group's director of government affairs.

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Wisconsin's solar industry employed 2,813 workers in 2016, a growth of 45 percent compared to the previous year, according to a survey from a non-profit environmental organization.

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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 northeastern Wisconsin utility can scale back a credit program for customers who generate their own electricity through solar panels, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.

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When private projects in Milwaukee receive city money, a group of local officials think the developers should also get a little nudge toward making use of solar panels and other "green" features.

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Even though nearly 25,000 people work in Wisconsin’s clean-energy industry, the state still has a smaller percentage of its workforce employed in that sector than any of its neighbors in the Midwest.

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Amid an upswing in solar-energy projects in Wisconsin, two more utility companies announced plans Wednesday that will put the state on the road toward doubling its generation capacity this year.

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A Waukesha County manufacturer recently joined the ranks of Wisconsin commercial and industrial operations investing in solar power.

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Renewable-energy advocates hailed a court ruling Friday overturning a special surcharge that We Energies could impose on solar customers, deeming it the start of a new day for the solar-energy industry in southeast Wisconsin.

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