Cheap solar helps Wisconsin utilities speed up green energy transition as support grows

solar arrayFrom the Green Bay Gazette, February 22, 2021.

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.

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