State and university officials visited two solar sites and other sustainability efforts on the University of Wisconsin-Parkside campus.

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Coal plants are shutting down in Portage, Oak Creek and Sheboygan. Solar and wind farms are going up in Cambridge, Darien and Grant County.

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Dane County Executive Joe Parisi joined Alliant Energy and SunVest Solar executives on Tuesday to celebrate the installation of the first solar panels at the 90-acre solar farm site on county-owned land in the town of Cottage Grove.

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As the head of the nation's largest rooftop solar installer, Mary Powell has a stake in the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act, which includes tax credits to make rooftop solar cheaper.

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The state is providing a grant for training in the solar industry as part of its latest distribution from its Wisconsin Fast Forward program.

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The Biden administration announced it was putting a two-year freeze on the threat of new solar tariffs, throwing a lifeline to U.S. solar installers – and likely to the country's ability to meet its climate goals.

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President Joe Biden ordered emergency measures Monday to increase U.S. manufacturing of solar panels and declared a two-year tariff exemption on panels from Southeast Asia as he attempted to jumpstart an industry key to his climate change-fighting goals.

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Wisconsin regulators approved Alliant Energy's plan on Thursday to spend about $620 million to develop six new solar farms and close two coal plants in the second phase of a plan to spend $1.5 billion on renewable energy.

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Kari Lydersen Energy News Network, WisconsinWatch.org A lack of clarity over third-party-owned solar in Wisconsin has stymied cities’ efforts to install solar arrays on municipal buildings, but one city says it’s come up with a workaround that could be replicated ...

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State regulators on Thursday approved the construction of the $650 million Koshkonong solar farm in Dane County, a project that will result in the state's largest utility-scale solar array when it's finished.

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