The group wants to block rules enacted by the state utilities regulator that they say unlawfully create barriers to local clean energy sources like solar panels.
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (CN) A Wisconsin-based clean energy group sued the state’s utilities regulator on Thursday demanding rule changes to make it easier and cheaper for Badger State consumers to access renewable energies in lieu of typical power sources.
The Midwest Renewable Energy Association – whose offices are in Milwaukee and Custer, a small community in central Wisconsin – says the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, or PSC, is illegally regulating residents’ private energy consumption choices beyond its authority in ways that are preventing use of clean energy sources like solar power, which the group’s complaint calls “constitutionally as well as politically suspect.”
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Wisconsin utility proposes large solar-plus-storage facility
The U.S. state of Wisconsin’s first large-scale solar farm only went online in late 2020, but electric and gas delivery holding company WEC Energy Group has just proposed plans for a 310MW solar power plant with 110MW of battery storage.
The proposal for the Paris Solar-Battery Park in Kenosha County was filed with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin yesterday. If approved, construction would begin in 2022 for commissioning in 2023. WEC Energy Group, which serves around 4.6 million customers in four states, said that two of its utility subsidiaries, Wisconsin Public Service and We Energies, would own 90% of the project. Another smaller Wisconsin utility provider, Madison Gas & Electric (MGE), would own the remaining 10%.
Federal appellate judges heard debate over whether claims of bias against two commissioners who approved the power line’s construction are enough to halt the project.
Howard Creek in the Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Brandon Jones/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
CHICAGO (CN) The tug-of-war over a major electric transmission corridor proposed to run through two Midwest states arrived back before a Seventh Circuit panel on Wednesday, where attorneys and judges raised questions over past approval of the project.
Environmental groups fighting construction of the power line say two members of the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin with ties to transmission companies involved with the project were biased in approving the corridor and that the line’s approval is doing ongoing harm. The commissioners and transmission companies say there is no cognizable harm being created by the finished deal and that the allegations of bias are not supported by fact.