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RENEW Wisconsin leads and represents businesses, organizations, and individuals who seek more clean, renewable energy in Wisconsin.In its 21st year, RENEW continues to advance progressive renewable energy policies for Wisconsin through advocacy, education, and collaborative initiatives. RENEW is at the policy and regulation table every day representing 115 renewable energy companies doing business in Wisconsin as well as nearly 300 individuals and other organizations who share our vision for Wisconsin.
Sign on to Statement of Support for Clean Energy Choice
We, the undersigned businesses, organizations, and individuals, affirm our belief that the road to a sustainable economy in Wisconsin runs through the state’s own clean renewable energy sources. Integrating locally available renewables into our economy engages a vast supply chain of local manufacturers, distributors and installers, farmers, builders, entrepreneurs, and related professional workers. Local renewables secure relatively clean, risk-free and low-maintenance energy to a state with no fossil fuel reserves. Renewables also help keep energy dollars circulating within Wisconsin.
As both utility customers and citizens, we support policies that expand opportunities to access renewable energy where we live or work. There are more than 20 states (such as Illinois, Michigan, California, Colorado, Missouri and New Jersey) that expressly allow third-party ownership of renewable energy systems on a customer’s premises. In those states, the renewable energy system need not be owned by the host customer. Instead, host customers can sign a contract with a third party who installs, operates, and owns a renewable energy system on the customer’s premises. Those states that allow third-party owned renewable energy systems now have the most active markets in the country for small renewable energy systems.
We believe the Wisconsin renewable energy business community will enjoy substantial and sustained growth if allowed to use the same tools that are available in over 20 states. This is why we strongly endorse the Clean Energy Choice initiative, and look forward to supporting legislation next year that would exempt third party-owned renewable energy systems that sell energy directly to the host customer from the definition of a public utility.
Clean Energy Choice embraces the virtues of customer choice, fiscal responsibility, property rights and social responsibility. It is a policy tool that allows citizens to exercise their preferences for renewable energy at no extra cost to ratepayers and taxpayers. For those reasons, we the undersigned enthusiastically support Clean Energy Choice and urge Wisconsin policymakers to adopt this initiative.
To add your business or organization's name to the list of signatories above, contact Michael Vickerman at 608-255-4044 (ext. 2) or email.
A list of Clean Energy Choice supporters, as of May 16, 2013 apppears below.
| Adobe REO (Dodgeville) | |
| ALT Energy (Sussex) | |
| Artha Sustainable Living Center (Amherst) | |
| Carl Siegrist Consulting, LLC (Whitefish Bay) | |
| Carlson Mapping and Analysis LLC (Sun Prairie) | |
| Chimney Specialists (Highland) | |
| Citizens for a Clean, Green, and Welcoming Community (Wisconsin Rapids) | |
| Clean Wisconsin (Statewide) | |
| City of Milwaukee (Milwaukee) | |
| Convergence Energy (Lake Geneva) | |
| CSI Sun (Highland) | |
| Current Electric Co. (Brookfield) |
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| Door County Environmental Council (Sturgeon Bay/FishCreek) | |
| DVO, Inc. (Chilton) | |
| E3 Coalition (Viroqua) | |
| Eland Electric (Green Bay) | |
| Energize LLC – (Winneconne) | |
| Environmental Law Policy Center (Madison) | |
| Energy Concepts (Hudson) | |
| Energy Consulting Network (Madison) | |
| Full Spectrum Solar (Madison) |
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| Global Infrastructure Asset Management LLC (Madison) | |
| Grading Spaces (Fort Atkinson) | |
| Green Neighbor (Wauwatosa) | |
| Green Sky Energetics (Manitowoc) | |
| H&H Solar Group (Madison) | |
| Helios USA (Milwaukee) | |
| Hoffman Planning, Design and Construction, Inc. (Appleton) | |
| Johnson Controls (Milwaukee) | |
| Kettle View Renewable Energy (Random Lake) | |
| L&S Technical Associates, Inc. (Spring Green) | La Crosse County (La Crosse) |
| Lake Michigan Wind and Sun (Sturgeon Bay) | |
| Legacy Solar, Inc. (Frederic) | |
| Lemberg Electric (Brookfield) | |
| Let It Shine Energy Services (Washburn) |
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| Madison Solar Consulting (Madison) | |
| Midwest Renewable Energy Association (Custer) | |
| Milwaukee Solar (Milwaukee) | |
| Next Step Energy (Eau Claire) | |
| North American Solar Stores (Madison) | |
| North Wind Renewable Energy (Stevens Point) | |
| Organic Valley Cooperative (LaFarge) | |
| Photovoltaic Systems LLC (Amherst) | |
| Planet Bike (Madison) | |
| Prairie Solar Power & Light (Prairie du Chien) | |
| Productive Energy Solutions (Madison) | |
| RENEW Wisconsin (Statewide) | |
| REpowerNow (Viroqua) | |
| Resource Solar (Madison) | |
| Ritger Law Office (Random Lake) |
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| Sand Creek Consultants (Amherst) | |
| Sierra Club – John Muir Chapter (Statewide) | |
| Solar Connections (Madison) |
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| Southwest Badger Resource and Development Council (Platteville) | |
| Sun and Daughters Solar LLC (Rhinelander) | |
| SunPower Corporation (Verona) | |
| SunSpec (Milwaukee) |
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| SunVest (Pewaukee) | |
| Superior Safety and Environmental Services (Middleton) | |
| Sustainable Atwood (Madison) | |
| Sustainable Engineering Group (Madison) |
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| Symbiont (Milwaukee) | |
| TAPCO – Traffic and Parking Control Inc. (Milwaukee) | |
| Tom Brown, Architect (Stevens Point) | |
| Town and Country Resource & Development Council (Jefferson) | |
| U.S. Biogas (Mequon) | |
| W.E.S. Engineering (Madison) | |
| Werner Electric (Neenah) | |
| Wisconsin Business Alliance (Statewide) | |
| Wisconsin Council of Churches – Stewardship of Public Life Commission (Statewide) | |
| Wisconsin Environment (Statewide) | |
| Wisconsin Farmers Union (Chippewa Falls) | |
| Wisconsin Interfaith Power & Light (Statewide) | |
| Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice (Statewide) | |
| Wisconsin Solar Energy Industries Association (Statewide) |
(Updated 5/15/2013)
To add your business or organization’s name to the list of signatories above, contact Michael Vickerman at 608.255.4044x2 or mvickerman@renewwisconsin.org
