Wisconsin regulators on Thursday rejected a town's attempt to block the construction of a proposed 300-megawatt solar farm in rural Dane County, a project that promises to be the largest of its kind in the state when built.

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In the nearly two decades since he founded Arch Electric in a garage in Plymouth, Ed Zinthefer has been riding what he likes to call a “solar coaster.”

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After years of regulatory uncertainty, a new proposal in Wisconsin would finally clarify that utility customers do not need to own solar equipment to have installed on their rooftops.

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Alliant Energy has announced plans to buy and add onto an existing solar farm project at Palo to make it Iowa's largest solar and battery-storage farm.

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Two figures highlight just how far Wisconsin has to go to address climate change in a substantial way.

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Wisconsin regulators on Thursday signed off on the Apple River Solar farm, a 100-megawatt array to be built in Polk County.

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Wisconsin regulators approved a developer's plans on Thursday to build a 100-megawatt solar farm in Dodge County over objections from local government officials and residents.

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Solar energy has the potential to supply up to 40% of the nation's electricity within 15 years — a 10-fold increase over current solar output, but one that would require massive changes in U.S. policy and billions of dollars in federal investment to modernize the nation's electric grid, a new federal report says.

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As developers use more land in rural Wisconsin for large solar farms, lawmakers have introduced a bill meant to recognize projects that set aside land beneath solar panels for growing food or benefiting pollinators.

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When Carissa and Nathan Lyle were expecting their first child in 2017, they bought an old farmhouse on about three acres just west of Rockdale. "We just wanted to be in the country, to have that environment for our kids to grow up in," Carissa said. So Carissa was stunned last winter when she saw engineering plans for a proposed 2,400-acre solar farm that would wrap around three sides of their home.

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