Archive for November, 2006
Middleton firm grows on wind farm sales
A story in today’s Capital Times illustrates the economic development power of alternative energy:
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )MIDDLETON – Wind power keeps charging up the prospects for the local unit of American Superconductor Corp.
The firm’s Middleton-based Power Electronics Systems unit makes voltage regulation systems that have been racking up millions of dollars in sales for wind farms across the globe. The wind farms use the systems to optimize the operation of the wind turbines and in connecting to power grids.
American Superconductor is projecting revenues for the unit to rise 50 percent to $22 million for its current fiscal year 2007 that ends next March 31. With the acquisition announced today of a company it has been working closely with, those revenues now are projected to double to $50 million in fiscal 2008.
Thompson leads plan for ethanol
An article by Nathan Leaf in the Wisconsin State Journal reports on development of another Wisconsin ethanol plant:
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )A business group led by former Gov. Tommy Thompson is looking to get in on the ethanol craze with a proposed plant near the Wisconsin-Illinois border.
Global Renewable LLC, the Whitewater company led by Thompson, announced Friday that it plans to build a $195 million plant in Sharon, a Walworth County village about 20 miles east of Beloit. With a proposed work force of 55, the plant would produce up to 120 million gallons of ethanol each year, making it one of the largest plants in the state and consuming 38 million bushels of corn annually.
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Madison street car meeting, Dec. 14
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Madison street car meeting, Dec. 14 )RENEW, Clean Wisconsin seek to oppose anti-wind lawsuit
Environmental Groups Affirm Support for Manitowoc County Wind Farm
To challenge unfounded assertions that wind generators threaten the health and safety of nearby neighbors, Clean Wisconsin and RENEW are moving to intervene in a lawsuit challenging Manitowoc County’s approval last summer of a windpower installation in the Town of Mishicot.
Both organizations support the seven-turbine project proposed by Emerging Energies, a Wisconsin limited liability partnership, and view the lawsuit’s allegations that the turbines constitute a public nuisance as utterly without merit.
“Wisconsin agencies have reviewed far larger wind projects with the same setback distances and have concluded that they will not significantly affect the human environment,” said RENEW Wisconsin’s Michael Vickerman.
“No matter which jurisdiction the lawsuit is filed in,” Vickerman said, “wind farm opponents recycle the same unsubstantiated claims even though not one of their legal challenges has ever prevailed. They seem unable to distinguish fantasy from fact.”
Both RENEW and Clean Wisconsin championed the passage of the state’s clean energy law (Act 141), which will raise the renewable energy content of the state’s electricity supply to 10% by 2015. Governor Doyle, a strong supporter of renewable energy development, enacted the legislation in March.
Wind generation should account for more than two-thirds of the renewable generation leveraged by Act 141, Vickerman said. There are more than a dozen wind energy projects proposed in Wisconsin, ranging in size from a single turbine to nearly 100.
“We need to stand up for our state’s progressive energy policies and not let a few fearful people derail or delay worthy wind projects,” Vickerman said.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Business member: Sagrillo Power and Light
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