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Epic Systems campus leads with massive geothermal system
Epic Systems' campus in Verona has an extensive geothermal network, one of the largest in the world, the company said. It's used as a model for sustainabile building design.
$130 million in Department of Energy grants at risk Wisconsin
As federal funding and systems dwindle, states are left to decide how and whether to make up the difference.
Trump administration cancels clean energy grants as it prioritizes fossil fuels
President Donald Trump's administration is terminating grants for two clean energy projects and roughly 300 others funded by the Department of Energy are in jeopardy.
Milwaukee plans to build net-zero modular homes, but there are hurdles
Milwaukee wants to build net-zero homes for low-income buyers with Habitat for Humanity.
Energy department grant helps push solar construction projects
SolarShare, a cooperative that works with solar contractors on small scale projects, won a round of federal prize money.
Energy Department awards $2.2B to strengthen the electrical grid and add clean power
The funding is important as storms driven by climate change damage power lines and cause outages, according to a top Energy Department official.
Energy agency announces $6 billion to slash emissions in industrial facilities
Funding will go to 33 demonstration projects in industries such as cement, steel and aluminum.
Electric vehicles owners and solar rooftops find mutual attraction
Solar is still a costly upfront investment, but people save money over time, and the initial cost is coming down, especially with federal and state incentives.
WRTP | BIG STEP, Realta Fusion begin partnership to bring workers into burgeoning energy sector
Both groups will develop developing comprehensive training programs and pre-apprenticeships for jobs needed to support the budding fusion industry.
Madison companies earn federal awards for fusion power
Many critical manufacturing processes need constant sources of high temperature and a federal program pushed for companies to make fusion power more technically and commercially viable.
Wisconsin signs memorandum for federal money to hydrogen energy hub
Wisconsin and three other states took a step closer on Wednesday to developing a clean hydrogen hub after Gov. Tony Evers signed an agreement, the governor’s office announced.
Researchers harness algae to ‘grow’ construction cement
The massive worldwide pouring of concrete as developers densify cities could be transformed, eliminating heat-trapping pollution into the atmosphere, by switching to a new kind of cement created in Colorado — cement that is "grown" by harnessing tiny sea organisms.
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- Kenosha firm completes largest private affordable housing project in Wisconsin
- After federal DEI rollback, Wisconsin DBE recertifications plummet
- Milwaukee Tool plans 141,000-square-foot expansion in Menomonee Falls
- Wisconsin Pre-Bid Meetings – Week of June 1, 2026
- Milwaukee County investment helped bring Whitefish Bay development to life
- Milwaukee considers 12-story, 200-unit Harbor District apartment plans
- Wauwatosa students take next steps to ‘irreplaceable’ construction jobs
- Racine starts $130 million lead service line replacement project
- Federal court shelves lawsuit seeking to dismantle DBE program
- Oshkosh to buy City Center for $12.5 million
- Warehouse hoped to be hotel suffers fire in Milwaukee
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Project Profiles
- First prefabricated bridge in US installed in Eau Claire County
- Illinois developer worked with Wisconsin contractor to build 258-unit Wauwatosa apartment complex
- VJS Construction raises the roof for Bruce Guadalupe Community School expansion project
- Microgrid pilot project will store energy for village affected by outages
- Dane County sees uptick in highway work zone crashes, on track to exceed last year
- The Hop streetcar will debut newest service route in fall with limited service
- FPC Live slims venue proposal to 1 downtown building
- Children’s Hospital urgent care center in Milwaukee gets first round of city approval
- With Sonag Construction shut down, feds move to block indicted owner from collecting leftover assets
- Four contractors selected to build border wall prototypes
- UW-Milwaukee’s Greenstreet shaping minds (and the city)
- Turning the Corner(s) (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)