At one time, Oskar Buttke was seriously considering trying to becoming a speech pathologist. Then he looked into the cost of getting a degree at a four-year university. Suddenly, the prospect of following several of his relatives into the electrical trades became quite appealing.

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The Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has released a $16.3 trillion climate plan that builds on the Green New Deal and calls for the United States to be using renewable energy throughout its economy by 2050 and to declare climate change a national emergency.

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Two Native American tribes in Wisconsin are receiving federal grants for renewable-energy projects that tribe members say will help reduce costs and lead to energy independence.

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As solar energy has become more popular and inexpensive, this once-fringe renewable source of power is now at the center of an energy turf war in Wisconsin.

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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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Faith Technologies is planning to start construction on what officials are calling the first “smart” manufacturing plant in Wisconsin, an off-grid operation that stands to be built with millions worth of state and local support.

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Dairyland Power Cooperative has finalized a power purchase agreement with Ranger Power for the proposed 149 megawatt Badger State Solar Project.

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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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Advocate Aurora Health plans to power its buildings entirely with renewable energy by 2030, a proposal that would touch on the system's 27 hospitals and more than 500 outpatient-care sites in Wisconsin and Illinois.

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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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