Archive for October, 2009
Solar Powering Your Community: A Guide for Local Governments
From the U.S. Department of Energy’s introduction to the guide: The U.S. Department of Energy developed this comprehensive resource to assist local governments and stakeholders in building sustainable local solar markets. The guide introduces a range of policy and program options that have been successfully field tested in cities around the country. The guide describes [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Rumors fly about offline wind turbines
From an article by Colleen Kottke in the Fond du Lac Reporter: BROWNSVILLE — As the blades of the 86 turbines on the Forward Wind Energy Center remain still, rumors have been circulating faster than the wind as to why the wind farm has been offline since Sept. 29. Invenergy LLC officials attributed the shutdown [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Excerpts from the Glacier Hills Wind Park environmental impact statement
The Public Service Commission issued the final environmental impact statement (EIS) on the Glacier Hills Wind Park, and it includes these items: Medical Impacts (page 68) UW Med Flight is the responding air ambulance service closest to the Glacier Hills project area. UW Med Flight and the other reswponding agencies plan to develop safe landing [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The cost of clean air
From an article by Mike Ivey in The Capital Times: For more than a decade, customers at Madison Gas & Electric have voted with their pocketbooks for cleaner energy. Under the voluntary “Green Power Tomorrow” program, more than 12,000 MGE customers – nearly 10 percent of its total customer base – pay on average a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Wind farm gets OK for road access
From an article by Lyn Jerde in the Porgage Daily Register: A proposed wind energy development in eastern Columbia County had to clear a hurdle with the county’s highway department. We Energies, the company that has proposed Glacier Hills Energy Park for the towns of Randolph and Scott, proposed building a road to allow maintenance [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Plain English explanation of wind siting reform bill
Governor Doyle signs Senate Bill 185 into law as Act 40. In the front row immediately behind the Governor from left to right, Curt Pawlisch (blue suit, red tie), RJ Pirlot (bow tie, WMC), Senator Jeff Plale (blue shirt), Rep. Soletski, Steven Peters (Soletski staffer), Walter Lueder (Wisconsin Farmers Union, open callor/blue shirt), Ryan Schryver, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sun Prairie company agrees to buy six 1.65 MW wind turbines from Hyundai Heavy Industries
From a news release issued by Wave Wind: Wave Wind, LLC, a leading wind energy service provider, recently agreed to purchase six 1.65 MW wind turbines from Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI). The wind turbines—the first ever sold by HHI in North America—will be transported by Wave Wind from the port of Houston to Wisconsin, where [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Wisconsin utility customers to pay for wind farm in Minnesota
From an Associated Press story on WSAW-TV: ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota regulators have approved a wind farm in southern Minnesota that would be paid for by Wisconsin utility ratepayers. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission on Thursday said Wisconsin Power & Light Co.’s project can be built just north of Albert Lea in Freeborn [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Public hearing set on Columbia County wind-farm proposal
From an article by Judy Newman in the Wisconsin State Journal: A 90-turbine wind farm proposed for northeast Columbia County, in Scott and Randolph townships, would have little impact on wetlands or birds but neighbors may not like the way the structures stand out against the rolling hills, according to the final environmental impact statement [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )U.S. tax breaks subsidize foreign oil production
From a news release issued by the Environmental Law Institute: A soon-to-be released study of federal energy subsidies by the Environmental Law Institute, a nonpartisan research and policy organization, shows that the federal government has provided substantially larger subsidies to fossil fuels than to renewables. Subsidies to fossil fuels totaled approximately $72 billion over the [...]
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