Renewable Energy

State environmental regulators are proposing permit changes to reduce or avoid killing rare cave bats that may be affected by wind energy projects.

Wisconsin now has more than 73,000 clean energy jobs, and a new report finds that was boosted in large part last year by the Inflation Reduction Act.

Two federal programs will invest almost $93 million in 23 projects that will create jobs and reduce energy costs for rural Wisconsinites, the Biden administration announced Wednesday. 

We Energies, Wisconsin Public Service and Madison Gas and Electric filed plans with the Public Service Commission to build solar and wind facilities that would cost around $1.9 billion combined.

Clean energy and environmental groups from across Wisconsin are coming together to oppose new fossil fuel infrastructure investments proposed by state utilities.

President Joe Biden will travel to western Wisconsin Thursday to highlight new clean energy funding for rural electric cooperatives.

Owners of a solar project in Dane County say it’s now expected to cost more than $900 million due to supply chain disruptions and federal regulations that combat unfair trade practices and the use of forced labor.

An elementary school in Fitchburg is Wisconsin’s first school to produce net-zero energy, and a middle school in Menasha is trying to do the same. The referendum-approved projects offer insight into solar and geothermal energy as well as costs and tax credits.

All five of Wisconsin’s major electric utilities are on pace to hit their carbon reduction goals by the end of the decade, according to a new draft report from the state’s utility regulator.

Stevens Point recently became the latest Wisconsin city to pass a nonbinding resolution pledging to be carbon neutral by 2050.