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AWEA’s Bode: Iowa is a model for wind-energy development
From an article by on EcoSeed.com: Days before Iowa’s straw polls, the American Wind Energy Association is sending out a message that it hopes the rest of the nation will notice: Iowa is a wind energy state. This weekend, Iowa will hold its nationally significant straw polls for the Republican Party’s presidential primaries, which AWEA [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Learning curve steep for Cassville plant now burning wood biomass
Frm an article by Ron Seely in the Wisconsin State Journal: A small wood burner helps fire the boiler to heat the Barron, Wiscosnin schools. From smoking piles of wood chips in the countryside to dust on kitchen counters in Cassville, the difficulties posed by the conversion of the E.J. Stoneman Electrical Station in Grant [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Will Wisconsin’s emerging technologies survive under Walker?
From an article by Mike Ivey in The Capital Times: When President Obama toured the state last week, he visited two companies in Manitowoc to promote Wisconsin’s high-tech, clean-energy economy. First, the president stopped at Tower Tech Systems, which manufactures utility-scale wind towers. Then he toured Orion Energy Systems, which makes high-efficiency lighting and solar-focused [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Another coal plant converts to wood
From an article by Tom Content in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Efforts to add more renewable energy in Wisconsin from burning wood waste moved ahead Monday with the completion of one biomass power plant and the start of construction on another. A 40-megawatt biomass power plant has opened in southwestern Wisconsin. The power plant, the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Audience applauds end to coal at Charter plant
From an article in the Wisconsin State Journal by Ron Seely: Compliments far exceeded complaints at a hearing Wednesday night on a plan by the state and UW-Madison to rebuild the Charter Street Heating Plant, eliminating the use of coal and replacing it with natural gas and Wisconsin-grown alternative fuels such as wood chips and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Wood chips may pose problems when Charter Street plant converts to biomass
From an article by Jessica VanEgeren in The Capital Times: For decades, pollution spewed from factories and power plants across Wisconsin. As a result, air and water became polluted. Now it seems, so did the trees. At a time when state-owned power plants are ditching coal and going green by including biomass such as switch [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )UW-Madison’s Charter Street coal plant embarks on its transition to cleaner fuels
From an article by Ron Seely in the Wisconsin State Journal: It’s not easy going green. Just ask John Harrod Jr., who is helping guide the $250 million green makeover of UW-Madison’s Charter Street Heating Plant. The coal-burning plant will be converted so that it burns natural gas and cleaner, farm-grown fuels such as switchgrass. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )With biomass, green and not-so-green lines blur
From an article by Tom Content in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Wisconsin power projects spark questions about emissions from biomass vs. fossil fuels How green can the energy produced by a biomass power plant be if it releases carbon dioxide into the air just like a coal or natural gas-fueled plant? That’s the question being [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )RENEW testifies in support of Clean Energy Jobs Act bill
Michael Vickerman (left), Josh Stolzenburg (center), owner of North Wind Renewable Energy, LLC, Stevens Point, and Dave Miller, Wave Wind, LLC, Sun Prairie, testify in support of the Clean Energy Jobs Act bill before the Special Assembly Committee on Climate Change. Vickerman leans forward to show the committee members a map of renewable energy installations. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )RENEW: Hearing trivialized Advanced Renewable Tariffs
From a letter from RENEW Wisconsin to Senators Jeff Plale and Mark Miller, co-chairs of the Select Senate Committee on Clean Energy, who held a hearing on the Clean Energy Jobs Act bill on January 27: Dear Senators Miller and Plale: Thank you for holding a hearing yesterday of the Select Committee on Clean Energy [...]
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