Article originally published by Journal Sentinel
We Energies has proposed an innovative pilot project that would increase the amount of electricity it generates from solar power without passing the costs onto its existing customers. The company also has proposed a smaller pilot project in which it basically would rent space for solar panels on the rooftops or property of commercial and industrial customers…The proposed pilot project would give large industrial and commercial customers — who typically need more electricity than can be generated by rooftop solar panels — a simple way to meet goals for using renewable energy…
A similar pilot project was approved [by the Public Service Commission] for Madison Gas & Electric Co. last year…
The project also would give WE Energies experience with operating so-called distributed solar generation — as opposed to large power plants — and how that new capacity would tie into its local distribution system.