Energy
SOLAR CENTRAL WISCONSIN
Grow Solar is a collaborative effort to make solar affordable for private home owners as well as businesses.
Check out their website www.growsolar.org.
You will find plenty of resources for municipalities, industry professionals and homeowners right here in central Wisconsin.
Many installations already have been done on homes and businesses in these counties: Portage, Wood, Waupaca and Marathon.
MREA (Midwest Renewable Energy Association) and Mid-State Technical College are leading this group buy program.
You can attend a free Solar Power Hour and learn the ...
SOLAR CENTRAL WISCONSIN
Home and business owners in Central Wisconsin are energized as the Central Wisconsin Solar Group Purchase Program began July 25 with a special presentation at the Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA).
The Solar Central Wisconsin program allows individual home and commercial property owners to access lower prices for solar installations through the power of volume purchasing. This program builds on the success of 2017’s Solar Central Wisconsin program, which led to 308 kW of solar on 46 properties, offsetting approximately 405,264 lbs of carbon dioxide in the ...
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Greensburg, Kansas is the second U.S. city to go 100 percent renewable after Burlington, Vermont. In May 2007, an EF-5 tornado leveled the small town. Half of the town’s population of 1500 people left town and never returned.
But out of the rubble came an actual model for renewable energy and sustainable development. The city rebuilt every building to LEED-platinum standards and converted every street light to LEDs, the first in the nation to do both.
The city has curbside recycling and saves water with low flow fixtures. It collects rainwater for irrigation and ...
