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Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has signed off on Executive Order 38, a motion that will create an Office of Sustainability and Clean Energy within the state, with the office tasked with achieving the goal of ensuring all electricity consumed within the State of Wisconsin is 100% carbon-free by 2050. Other missions of the Wisconsin Office of Sustainability and Clean Energy will include ensuring that the state fulfills the carbon reduction goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, foster innovation, research, and business development within the renewable energy market and develop energy efficiency, sustainability and renewable energy standards for all new and existing state facilities, office buildings, and complexes. The office will also promote clean energy workforce training though a partnership with the University of Wisconsin System, Wisconsin Technical College System and other workforce programs. In terms of developing a new clean energy plan for Wisconsin, the Office of Sustainability and Clean Energy will work in conjunction with the Department of Natural Resources, the Department of Transportation, the Public Service Commission, the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, other state agencies, Native Nations, local governments, utilities, businesses, and other stakeholders to develop and implement said plan.  Per the release from the Office of the Governor, Evers' order comes from the fact that “climate change poses a serious threat to Wisconsin's natural resources, public health, communities, tourism, and economy.”  The release adds that past research by the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts revealed that by the middle of the century, statewide average annual temperatures are likely to warm by 6 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit. Another report from the Union of Concerned Scientists suggests that under the current trajectory, by 2050 Wisconsin could see two weeks per year of dangerous heat - with heat indexes above 100 degrees - analogous to the current climate in states such as Alabama and South Carolina.  While Wisconsin trails behind other US states when it comes to PV generation, more and more solar projects are on the horizon, headlined by the 300MW Badger Hollow Solar Farm, which is being developed by Chicago-based Invenergy. 

including six plants, was green-lighted by the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin in April. The energy has gotten Burns & McDonnell to construct the 50MW

The project is prepared to be constructed in Rock and also Walworth areas, Wisconsin. Last month, the business revealed prepare for the 310-MW Paris Solar-Battery

sent a design intend on Feb. 20, to the general public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC). This project, the Paris Solar Farm, would certainly be a 200-megawatt

Richland, Rock, Sheboygan and also Timber. With each other they will make the Wisconsin utility the state's largest owner-operator of solar. The 6 websites will

energy to our consumers," stated Mark Stoering, president, Xcel Energy, Wisconsin as well as Michigan. "From our totally subscribed Wisconsin community

for the transaction was granted by the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, MGE said on Thursday. It concerns the purchase of the Koshkonong Solar Energy

of a 100-MW solar project, the Apple River Solar Project, in Polk County, Wisconsin. Set to supply power to Xcel Energy, the facility will employ First Solar

Farm solar project will be one of the first farm solar installations in Wisconsin. According to the United States Energy Information Administration, less than

not the very first solar plus storage space project Invenergy is servicing in Wisconsin, with a 200MW solar PV and 110MW BESS in Kenosha County that was accepted in

for Humanity chapters throughout Wisconsin and the Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA) have actually partnered on the Grow Solar for Humanity effort,

construction of the six solar plants that will be located in the US state of Wisconsin and are readied to be operational in the second fifty percent of 2023. These

project, located in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, will certainly include 200 MW of solar and also 110 MW of battery storage. MGE will purchase 20 MW of solar energy

for the following 30 years via the state's shared revenue program. " Across Wisconsin, Alliant Energy is working with families, farmers, businesses as well as

that a site like this produces, we're really privileged to be at the center of Wisconsin's energy transformation." With almost 120,000 photovoltaic panels covering