Edgerton Hospital and Health Services, built as a green building in 2011, installed a vertical bore geothermal system that uses the earth’s temperature to heat and cool the 60,000 square-foot complex. With an incentive from Focus on Energy and after five years of operation …
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Xcel Energy announces plans for Solar Connect Community garden in Ashland
Article originally published by Sawyer County Record Community solar gardens continue to grow in Wisconsin. On Jan. 4, Xcel Energy announced plans to develop a third, one-megawatt solar garden in Ashland. The garden will be …
Natural gas suppliers to refund more than $12M in Wisconsin for price fixing schemes
Article originally published by Lacrosse Tribune The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration are among some five dozen Wisconsin organizations that have received more than $12 million in settlements for natural gas price fixing nearly 20 …
Wisconsin Energy Grid Likely To Be Less Coal-Fired In The Future
Article originally published by Wisconsin Public Radio Wisconsin’s energy production is in line with national trends that show declining use of fossil fuel plants, in particular coal-fired plants. A recent report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration found nearly all …
We Energies to Close Pleasant Prairie Coal Plant and Develop Large Scale Solar
We Energies will close its Pleasant Prairie coal power plant in Kenosha County in the second quarter of 2018, citing the low price of natural gas and increasingly affordable renewable energy as factors contributing to the decision for retiring it …
FERC Rejects Bailout Plan for Coal and Nuclear Energy Markets
Federal regulators reject a Trump administration plan to prop up coal and nuclear plants, saying there is no evidence it will make the electric grid more reliable. Greentech Media
Solar Tariff Impacts
The President placed a 30 percent tariff on solar module imports that reduces to half in year 4 in response to the case (Section 201) brought to the US International Trade Commission by two foreign-owned …
Worlds Largest Lithium Ion Battery Deployed in Australia
Tesla activated a 100MW (129MWh) lithium ion battery in South Australia in response to a brownout that left 30,000 homes without power. The battery stores and dispatches electricity generated from wind. The project is part of …
Solar + Storage Systems Bring Disaster Relief
After hurricanes took down the electric grid in Puerto Rico in September, Tesla deployed solar panels and energy storage systems to restore reliable electric power to hospitals, an elderly community, sanitary sewer treatment plants, a water pumping station, and other …
New, Major Evidence that Fracking Harms Human Health
Article originally published by The Atlantic Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may pose a significant—but very local—harm to human health, a new study finds. Mothers who live very close to a fracking well are more likely …