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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Fracking industry executive says 90% of Americans are ‘nuts
From a column by Lyle Hopkins in The Capital Times: Wall Street and CEO culture in America is out of touch, arrogant, condescending, and those are probably their good qualities. Recent examples run the gamut, from snooty finance employees sipping champagne while mocking Wall Street protesters to a sign posted in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )PV’s levelized cost drops to 11.5 cents per kWh with incentives
An analysis by Don Wichert, Director, Renewable Energy Services, Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation (WECC): My recent (simplified) levelized cost analysis for commercial PV, at $5,252 a kW installed in WI, over 25 years and with a 5% loan (no shading, no maintenance, no output degradation), is 13.8 cents per kWh as shown on the slide [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Presentations from RENEW Energy Strategy Summit
Leslie Glustrom Renewable Energy’s Day Will Come: Coal is Not Cheap, Plentiful, or Clean Leslie Glustrom US Coal Supply Constraints: The “Sweet Imperative” that Will Help Drive the Repowering of the United States for the 21st Century Mick Sagrillo How To Frame The Debate or Tips and Tricks from Karl Rove
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Policy Briefs from Energy Strategy Summit
RENEW Wisconsin Policy Issue Briefs Prepared for Policy Summit – January 13, 2012 Topic Area: Expanding Market Access Authorizing Renewable Energy Sales from Third Parties to Host Customers BACKGROUND: There are many households and businesses around the state that desire to host a renewable energy system, but can’t afford the up-front costs associated with these [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Editorial: Wisconsin must grow cleaner energy jobs
From an editorial in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Renewable energy can help the state develop new jobs. Wisconsin should be open to those businesses, too. If Wisconsin really wants to be open for business, it can’t shut the door on developing clean energy jobs. Right now, thanks to legislative and gubernatorial foot-dragging, that’s the case [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Integrys sees solar as “an area of growth”
From an interview with Dan Verbanac, president of Integrys Energy Services (parent company of Wisconsin Public Service, De Pere), in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Q. Let’s shift now to your solar development business. What got that going? A. We had a power development unit and were looking for niches where we could use our expertise [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )NWTC Students “Solarize” the Kress Library
From an article written by Casey Fryda on the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College website NWTC Solar Energy Technology students helped a library in De Pere adopt solar energy. Students in the Photovoltaics – Design and Site class evaluated the site of the Kress Library and presented recommendations for including solar energy panels in the library’s [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Convergence Energy Creates “Networked Solar” in Delavan
This article was written by Thomas Content of the Journal Sentinel Delavan – Welcome to the field where sun power and the sunflower meet. Well, not just one sunflower. More like thousands. And not just one solar panel, either. Thousands there, too. Convergence Energy of Lake Geneva is building one of the largest solar projects [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Milwaukee Port Wind Turbine Project Gets the OK
From an article by Thomas Content of the Journal Sentinel A project to build a wind turbine adjacent to the Port of Milwaukee’s administration building will move forward after a contractor agreed to increase its use of businesses owned by minorities or women. The Board of Harbor Commissioners gave the project a go-ahead at [...]
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