Energy & Utilities

Cottage Grove chemical plant to pay $480,500 for EPA violations

Hydrite Chemical Co. exceeded its hazardous air pollution permit limits and has...

Report: Madison lags in energy efforts

American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s 2020 City Clean Energy Scorecard, which...

Environmental group rejects utility rate freeze

The Sierra Club says a proposed MGE rate freeze will create future...

MGE earns approval of $31.7 million Fitchburg solar project

The Wisconsin Public Service Commission has authorized a 20-megawatt solar farm to...

Utility shutoff ban extended until April

Wisconsin Public Service Commission regulators have extended a ban on utility disconnections...

Madison College adds to solar energy system

With the addition of two new solar photovoltaic projects at Madison College’s...

Madison utility proposes electric rate freeze, natural gas hike

Madison Gas and Electric has filed an application with the Wisconsin Public...

Alliant rate freeze criticized by environmental groups

Wisconsin regulators have approved a plan from Alliant Energy to freeze electricity...

Panel rules that utilities can intervene in power line case

Three utility companies — American Transmission Co., Dairyland Power Cooperative, and ITC...

MGE flips the switch on Middleton solar field

The 5-megawatt Morey Field solar array at Middleton’s Municipal Airport is now...