Renew Wisconsin

Renew provides education about renewable energies, lobbying on behalf of these issues, and issues grants to businesses and individuals looking to purchase renewable energy equipment. 2022 highlights include: Renew hosted our 11th annual renewable energy summit in january. This hybrid event brought together over 600 renewable energy industry professionals, utility leaders, government officials, students, and advocates; in february, the Wisconsin state senate unanimously passed sb 692, which updated Wisconsin's property assessed clean energy (pace) program. The pace bill was signed into law by governor evers in march; Renew Wisconsin, together with a coalition of clean energy advocates, submitted comments in march to the public service commission of Wisconsin (pscw) in favor of protecting and improving net metering in Wisconsin; the city of racine in april unveiled the largest all-electric bus fleet in the state of Wisconsin; in april, Renew assembled a team of experts to develop a comprehensive framework for setting distributed generation (dg) buyback rates to counter utility efforts to undervalue customer-sited renewables; the commission approved alliant energy's application to construct 414 megawatts (mw) of solar generation at six locations. With approvals totaling nearly 1,100 mw, alliant's solar portfolio is set to become the largest of any midwest utility; the pscw approved in april invenergy's koshkonong project in eastern dane county. The project combines 300 mw of solar generation with 165 mw of battery energy storage; also in april, the pscw awarded $10 million in funding from the energy innovation grant program (eigp) to support innovative energy efficiency, solar and storage projects, and clean energy planning projects; governor tony evers introduced Wisconsin's first-ever clean energy plan and created a new office of environmental justice to promote environmentally fair policies; Renew Wisconsin and a group of solar developers and installers launched solarshare wi cooperative, a vehicle enabling members to pool investments into developing small-scale solar farms; Renew Wisconsin launched two campaigns, clean energy works for Wisconsin and clean energy is made in Wisconsin, to promote the benefits of Wisconsin clean energy investments; on may 22, Renew Wisconsin, with presenting sponsor xcel energy, hosted the 9th annual "ride with Renew" bike ride fundraiser in eau claire, wi.two petitions were filed at the pscw in may seeking rulings to clarify the issue of third-party-financed renewable energy generation serving individual customers behind their meters; Wisconsin submitted its Wisconsin electric vehicle infrastructure (wevi) plan, outlining plans for spending the $78.65 million of available funding to build, operate and maintain electric vehicle (ev) charging stations.