Cheap solar helps Wisconsin utilities speed up green energy transition as support grows
Cheap solar helps Wisconsin utilities speed up green energy transition as support grows
Green Bay Press Gazette
It's rare when the interests of industry, customers, governments and investors align, but that is what’s happening as Wisconsin’s largest utilities plot a path toward carbon-neutral energy generation by 2050. WEC Energy Group, the Milwaukee-based parent company of We Energies and Wisconsin Public Service Corp., and Madison-based Alliant Energy Corp. have laid out plans to shut down greenhouse gas-emitting coal plants in coming years and replace them with clean solar parks and wind farms. Their goals are the same: Carbon neutral emissions by 2050.
The pace of change has accelerated in recent years as the cost of solar power units plummeted and utilities responded to growing public and investor support for reducing emissions and sustainability initiatives. The utilities produce ESG Reports to highlight their environmental, social and governance efforts..
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New North Region Stepping Up to the COVID-19 Challenge
Wisconsin Restaurants endorse new safety program for safe dining
WBAY
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Everyone seems to want a bit of normalcy and will try to in any way they can, in the midst of the pandemic, such as going to dinner while also staying safe.
The Wisconsin Restaurant Association is making it easy for those people who are looking for safe dining options.
“Those that are looking for restaurants who are doing all the best practices, the hyper-sanitization, the wearing of the masks and social distancing of the table” as Kristine Hillmer, President and CEO of the Wisconsin Restaurant Association, says.
The Wisconsin Restaurant Association (WRA) launched the “Ready to Serve Safely” program in late November.
“These are restaurants who again have taken the pledge to do all of the best practices to keep their employees, as well as their customers safe. And that’s not to say that others aren’t being safe, but these are going above and beyond...
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Peter Gianopoulos to become United Way Fox Cities CEO and president in April
Appleton Post-Crescent
FOX CITIES - Peter Gianopoulos will become the new president and CEO of United Way Fox Cities this spring. Gianopoulos will start in the role on April 1, the community-building organization said in a news release Monday. Current CEO Peter Kelly announced his retirement in October.
Gianopoulos worked for the financial group, Thrivent, for almost 25 years....
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Leadership in the New North
DCEDC APPOINTS NEW OFFICERS & ELECTS NEW BOARD MEMBERS FOR 2021
Door County Economic Development Corporation
STURGEON BAY, WI - The Door County Economic Development Corporation (DCEDC) announces the appointment of new officers to it’s executive board and elects a new board member for 2021.
Ann Renard, of Renard’s Cheese Stores & Rosewood Dairy was installed as Chairwoman of the DCEDC Board of Directors and Todd Thayse of Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding former Chairman of the DCEDC Board of Directors will serve as Past-Chair.
Chairwoman Renard states; “I am honored to be serving on the board of Door County Economic Development. The support and resources DCEDC offers the businesses in Door County is second to none...
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Tony Evers seeks $2.4 billion for building projects — nearly half for UW campuses
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
MADISON - Gov. Tony Evers wants to spend $2.4 billion on building upgrades across Wisconsin — nearly half of which would be spent on University of Wisconsin System campuses.
The plan would give $1 billion to the UW System for building projects, spend $163 million on a new state office building in Milwaukee and create a $45 million juvenile correctional facility that would trigger the closure of the state's long-troubled youth prison.
In all, Evers is proposing projects in 31 of the state's 72 counties.
"The capital budget is an investment in the up-keep of our infrastructure...
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Lumber prices top $1,000 for the first time as single-family housing starts drop 12%
CNBC
Consumers want more newly built, affordable homes, but builders are finding that hard to deliver, especially as prices for framing lumber spike ever higher.
Lumber prices inched above $1,000 per 1,000 board feet Thursday morning before falling back below that milestone, according to Random Length Lumber Futures for March. The high of $1,004.90 is double the price from just three months ago and a record.
Higher lumber costs are likely behind a drop in January housing starts. Starts of single-family homes, which are the most desperately needed, fell 12% from December...
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