Archive for October, 2009
Renewable energy tour, Nov. 13
A news release issued by Wisconsin Farmers Union: Chippewa Falls, Wis. (October 30, 2009) – The Wisconsin Farmers Union and other Homegrown Renewable Energy Campaign partners will host a bus tour on Nov. 13 to highlight the benefits of four homegrown renewable energy policies promoted by the campaign and the opportunities for clean energy jobs [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Glacier Hills Wind Park hearing, Nov. 4
The Public Service Commission will take public testimony on We Energies’ proposed Glacier Hills Wind Park: Wednesday, November 4 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Randolph Town Hall 109 S. Madison St. – Friesland Those opposed to wind projects will likely make arguments like the one below from letter-to-the-editor of the Manitowoc Times Herald. The writere [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Winds of change are blowing
From an article by Tom Content in the Wisconsin State Journal: We Energies proposal in Columbia County runs into resistance over turbine noise, cost We Energies has run into some headwinds in its bid to build the biggest wind farm in the state. The Glacier Hills Wind Park project in Columbia County would consist of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Renewable energy policies would benefit farmers
From a column by Margaret Krome in The Capital Times: President Obama toured renewable energy research facilities recently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He wanted to drive home the point that homegrown, low-carbon energy sources and energy conservation strategies are crucial to steer the planet toward a safer climate and the nation toward greater [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Experts rip anti-wind “research”
Even though the quotes below from pre-filed statements take the form of rebuttal testimony in the PSC proceedings on We Energies’ Glacier Hills Wind Park, they can stand on their own. You need not read the filings they rebut in order to make sense out of what they’re saying. The pre-filed testimony stands among the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Solar outlook set to dim in 2010
A news release issued by RENEW Wisconsin: Utilities’ voluntary incentives hit limits (Madison, WI – October 23, 2009) In contrast to the rapid growth experienced in the last three years, a leading state renewable energy advocacy group expects a sharp decline in installed solar electric capacity in 2010. In statements directed to the Public Service [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )We have reached a limit to growth, and its name is Peak Oil.
From an address by Richard Heinburg to the ASPO International Conference 2009: As we all know, the global economy began contracting last year—though that’s just a nice, abstract way to put it. Industrial production fell. Corporations downsized or disappeared. Fifty trillion dollars in global capital vaporized in stock market crashes, bankruptcies, foreclosures, and defaults. Millions [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )RENEW opposes recommendation to raise MGE’s green power rate
From RENEW Wisconsin’s comments on a recommendation (see page 9) from Public Service Commission staff to increase the premium rate from 1 cent/kWh to 2.3 cents/kWh for MGE’s Green Power Tomorrow program: To the Commission: I would like to comment on the recommendations from PSC staff (witnesses John Feit and Jerry Albrecht) to increase the premium charged [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Group seeks to re-open renewable energy site
From a news release issued by DF-1: Yorkville, Wis. – When Maple Leaf Farms, a large duck producer, closed the doors on its Yorkville Plant in 2008, the region lost more than jobs. A unique, first-of- its-kind waste treatment facility, which We Energies celebrated as Wisconsin’s first duck manure-to energy methane digester in 2002, was [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Competitive industrial grants available for energy efficiency efforts
From a news release issued by Focus on Energy: MADISON, Wis. (October 19, 2009) – Focus on Energy, Wisconsin’s statewide resource for energy efficiency and renewable energy, announced competitive grants today to help industrial businesses and manufacturers throughout the state to complete energy efficiency projects. “In today’s economy, many companies are severely capital constrained,” said [...]
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