Energy Planning News & Discussion Blog
We currently have a crisis happening in rural Wisconsin. Our beautiful countryside, our quaint villages, our recreational destinations and tourism economies, our vital farming communities who bring food to our table, are being devastated by industrial utility-scale energy expansion. There are a lot of slogans and PR about this development from investors and cleverly crafted […]
State regulators, state lawmakers, federal lawmakers, and community energy planners: Does the prospect of households paying an additional $160 per month on their electric bills prompt you to wonder what else could be done with these funds? WISCONSIN REGULATORS AND MISO ESTIMATING THE COST OF MISO’S LONG RANGE PLAN MISO’S ELECTRIFICATION IMPACTS MISO’S POWER PLANT […]
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 of only 6.3 cents per kWh. Residents of Iowa County Wisconsin which are experiencing unprecedented pressure for solar and wind […]
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 so that Pattern can build about 86, ~650 foot high2 Wind Turbines. Unless landowners slow down and make an effort […]
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 300 MW WT project of approximately 86 WTs. While Patterns’ sales associates have a talent for making land owners believe […]
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 what the performance is. Collectively, the electric customers or ratepayers of Wisconsin utilities function as one, big investment business. We […]
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, and on my roof, and on my neighbor’s properties too. I like my energy use right-sized and close to where it […]