Energy
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We Energies, WPS apply for rate hikes for 2025 and 2026
If approved, a typical residential We Energies customer’s electric bills could rise between $10 and $11 per month in 2025 and between $7 and $8 in 2026, the utility estimates.
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In Barron County, burning trash powers light bulbs and cheesemakers
In La Crosse, the Xcel Energy French Island Generating Plant reports incinerating about 72,000 tons every year. At the Barron County Waste to Energy Facility, nearly 300 pounds of household trash, plastic and other material is burned every 10 minutes.
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Biden administration says federal court should reconsider Line 5 shutdown order
The Biden administration is urging a federal appeals court to reverse a lower court order that would shut down an oil and gas pipeline crossing the Bad River tribe’s reservation within three years.
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Utilities seek to lift order halting construction of transmission line through wildlife refuge
Owners of a transmission line are appealing a federal judge’s ruling that blocks a proposed land swap, preventing the project from crossing through a Mississippi wildlife refuge.
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We Energies Oak Creek natural gas plant would be up and running by 2028
The Oak Creek natural gas operation will be able to generate 1,100 megawatts of power, consisting of five 220 megawatt turbines.
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Superior City Council denies local approvals for $1B natural gas plant
The city council failed to set the public hearings that are required to make land use changes for the proposed Nemadji Trail Energy Center, effectively denying them.
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Federal judge blocks transmission line’s crossing through wildlife refuge for now
A federal judge has granted a request by conservation groups to temporarily block a proposed land swap, preventing a controversial transmission line from crossing through a Mississippi River wildlife refuge.
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Superior braces for legal challenge over planned $1B natural gas plant
Superior leaders are bracing for a legal challenge after its planning commission recommended the city deny local approvals for a nearly $1 billion natural gas plant there.
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Final pieces of western Wisconsin coal plant fall
The Genoa plant is the sixth coal plant Dairyland Power has decommissioned over the last decade as they’ve transitioned away from fossil fuels.
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Wisconsin is closer to building out an EV charging network
A GOP bill that would bring Wisconsin one step closer to building a network of fast-charging stations for electric vehicles has cleared the state Legislature.