Madison College Solar PV system ribbon cutting where Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes joins Madison College President Dr. Jack Daniels, MGE CEO Jeff Keebler, and Madison College professor Ken Walz in flipping on inverters. The ribbon …
Projects
Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Cheese
Emmi Roth, a Swiss specialty cheese producer with a plant in Platteville, WI, installed over 1,600 solar panels (527 kW) on the roof of their Wisconsin facility. The installation, by Eagle Point Solar of Dubuque, …
City of Beaver Dam Solar Financials
Beaver Dam’s city hall plus fire department building is all decked out in 308 solar panels for Halloween 2018. For the City, this 105 kW solar system is a sweet treat of $62,000 of Focus …
Epic System’s Commercial Wind Turbine Project
Photo of Epic System’s commercial wind turbine project. Located along Highway 12 northwest of Madison in the Town of Springfield, a total of six turbines were installed in 2012. Click here to read more. Springfield,WI …
NWTC Mobile Smart Grid Training Lab
The 53-foot Smart Grid Training Lab of Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) is a mobile training facility for electric utilities and other organizations interested in operating a smart grid. Operable on the grid or as a micro-grid, …
Portland’s Autonomous Infrastructure: Hydropower
LucidEnergy installed electricity-generating turbines in Portland, Oregon’s gravity-fed water pipes under the streets beginning in 2018. The drinking water is fed into the city by gravity via a drop in elevation from the mountains above. …
Royal Oaks Elementary School Solar
STEM Center informational kiosk displaying solar generation and energy savings information Students, under the direction of a second grade teacher at Royal Oaks Elementary School in the Sun Prairie Area School District, Dane County, helped …
Middleton Operations Center Hosts MGE Community Solar
Madison Gas & Electric uses the roof on the Middleton’s Municipal Operations Center for its Shared Solar program. This is a 500 kW community solar project where MGE customers purchase green power locally from the …
UW-Oshkosh Third Greenest University
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh was ranked third in the country in Sierra Club’s America’s Greenest Universities: The Top 10 Eco-valedictorians. Among its accomplishments, UW-Oshkosh saves $300,000 a year thorugh energy efficient practices. They have the largest concentration …
Sheboygan Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility
The Sheboygan Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility is nearly 100% energy self-sufficient. It achieves 40% heat and electricity savings through a combined heat and power system. It has a total of 700 kilowatts of generating capacity …