SOUL of Wisconsin – Energy Planning News & Discussion Blog

Above image: Open land surrounding a substation owned by Alliant in Dodgeville, Wisconsin where the company wants to build and own a ~15 acre solar plant and lease panels to customers with a solar credit…

CO2 Emission Reduction / Distributed Solar / Energy Laws / Policies / PSCW / Ratepayer Impacts

Governor Evers Okays PSCW to Explore a Fairer…

- February 9, 2021 | February 9, 2021 - Rob Danielson comment

SOUL is uncertain whether intervenors will be able to participate in Docket 1-AC-256 “Section 119 rule making,” but the new rules established by the Commission are likely to either propel or limit investment in distributed grid…

CO2 Emission Reduction / Energy Laws / Policies / Focus on Energy / Land Use / Non-Transmission Alternatives / DERS / PSCW / Utility-Scale Renewables

Multi-National Wind Developer Seeks Wisconsin Landowner Commitments without…

- September 25, 2020 | October 16, 2020 - Rob Danielson comment

Very few residents of Iowa and Lafayette Counties in Wisconsin are aware that a Canadian-owned, multinational corporation, Pattern LLC,1 has salespeople on the ground courting landowners to exchange a few hundred dollars for signed agreements…

Energy Laws / Policies / Land Use / Utility-Scale Renewables

Understanding Wind System Proposal in Iowa and Lafayette…

- September 23, 2020 | September 23, 2020 - Chris Klopp comment

Wind developers are making their way through large parts of Iowa and Lafayette counties persuading landowners to sign lease easements for large industrial wind turbines (WTs). What Pattern Energies is proposing is to site a…

CO2 Emission Reduction / Distributed Solar / Energy Efficiency / Energy Laws / Policies / Focus on Energy / MISO / Non-Transmission Alternatives / DERS / PSCW / Ratepayer Impacts

Getting Serious About CO2 -Part II

- August 10, 2020 | September 20, 2020 - Rob Danielson comment

State Efficiency Programs vs. Regional Transmission Expansion Planning Through Fall 2019 and early Winter 2020, a team of five, volunteer citizen public intervenors accomplished what no organizations, public utilities, government entities or law…

CO2 Emission Reduction / Distributed Solar / Energy Efficiency / Energy Laws / Policies / Focus on Energy / Land Use / PSCW / Ratepayer Impacts / Transmission / Utility-Scale Renewables

Getting Serious About CO2 -Part I

- July 31, 2020 | August 13, 2020 - Rob Danielson comment

Section I: Have I Got a Deal for You! Question: What business would make a similar investment seven times and not stop to check its performance? Answer: One that is guaranteed 10.2% return no matter…

CO2 Emission Reduction / Distributed Solar / Land Use / Transmission

Are You RIMBY Too?

- July 15, 2020 | August 15, 2020 - Terese Agnew comment

For decades, promoters of for-profit utility interests have been calling me NIMBY, as in: Not In My Back Yard. The labeling evades the fact that I’m really a RIMBY. I welcome alternative power sources like solar Right In My Back Yard,…