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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Clean-energy advocates will get a second chance to block the proposed construction of a natural-gas plant in northern Wisconsin, although the odds of prevailing are not in their favor.

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A utility serving 3.6 million electricity customers in Wisconsin and seven other states said on Tuesday it will try to eliminate all its carbon emissions from electrical generation by 2050.

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PROJECT NAME: West Riverside Energy Center ADDRESS: 1401 W B R Townline Road, Town of Beloit SIZE: 315-acre, 730-megawatt, natural-gas-fired generating station COST: $700 million START OF CONSTRUCTION: fall of 2016 ESTIMATED TIME OF COMPLETION: By end of 2019 OWNER: ...

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Even in an expanding economy, it’s not every business that can grow tenfold in just eight years. But that’s what has happened to the renewable-energy divisions at Mortenson.

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A Republican through and through, Scott Coenen spent years before, during and after college arguing that renewable energy was a boondoggle.

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A new city of Milwaukee policy change passed on Wednesday could help lessen the sticker shock caused by solar-panel systems for sale to developers and homeowners.

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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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