Newest Wisconsin Installations Powered by Biogas, Solar, and Wind
(Madison) At its third annual Energy Policy Summit next month, RENEW Wisconsin will recognize the six largest nonutilityowned renewable generation projects built in Wisconsin in
2013. Titled We Mean Business, RENEW’s
summit
is set
for January 10, 2014, and will take
place at The Pyle Center on the UWMadison campus.
All six clean energy
projects
to
be inducted into RENEW’s
Million Watt Club next month have a minimum electric generating capacity of one megawatt (MW). These installations are designed either to
supply energy directly to the host facility or a Wisconsin utility. The
combined generating capacity of the Class of 2013 installations is 19.6 MW, compared with the
15.4 MW that came online in 2012.
Below are capsule descriptions of the Class
of 2013 renewable generation projects to be inducted into RENEW Wisconsins Million Watt Club.
  • Galactic Wind Farm, a 10 MW facility in the Town of Springfield in Dane County. This plant is the
    largest wind-power project in Wisconsin not owned by an energy company.
    Project participants
    include Veronabased Epic Systems (owner), The Morse Group (general
    contractor), Cullen, Weston, Pines & Bach
    (legal services), Madison Gas & Electric (interconnection facilitator), and
    W.E.S. Engineering (consulting engineer).
  • GreenWhey Digester, a 3.2 MW facility located in Turtle Lake. This plant is powered with biogas
    derived from liquid organic wastes produced at several
    food processing
    companies located in Turtle Lake. Project participants include GreenWhey Energy (owner),
    Miron Construction (general
    contractor), Xcel Energy (longterm
    electricity purchaser) Symbiont Inc. (balanceof-
    system
    engineer), and Geo Investors (financing).
  • Forest County Potawatomi Community (FCPC) Renewable Generation Digester, a 2 MW facility located in Milwaukee. This plant is powered with biogas derived from liquid organic wastes produced at the tribally owned casino next door.
    Project participants include FCPC (owner),
    Miron Construction (general
    contractor), Symbiont Inc. (balanceof-system engineer), Titus Energy
    (consulting engineer), Godfrey & Kahn (legal services), We Energies (longterm electricity purchaser)
    Greenfire Management Services (owners representative), and Rockwell Automation (motor controls). The GE engine generators were manufactured in Waukesha.

     
  • Dane County Community Digester, a 2 MW facility located in the Town of Springfield in Dane County and interconnected to Madison Gas & Electric. Dane Countys second community digester, this plant is powered with biogas derived from manure produced at several adjoining dairy farms.
    Project participants include Gundersen Health (owner), C.G. Schmidt (general
    contractor), Dane County (catalyst and facilitator), Madison Gas & Electric (longterm electricity purchaser), and U.S. Biogas (system designer).
  • Rosendale Dairy Digester, a 1.4 MW facility located near Pickett in Winnebago County.
    This plant is powered with biogas derived from manure produced at Rosendale Dairy. Project
    participants include
    Milk Source (owner), BIOFerm (system designer), Alliant Energy (longterm
    electricity purchaser),
    and UW-Oshkosh Foundation (financing
    and
    educational
    partner).
  • Jefferson Solar, a 1 MW facility located in the City of Jefferson.
    This plant, Wisconsins first commercial
    solar energy plant, produces electricity for sale to the grid. Project participants include Half Moon Ventures (owner),
    S&C Electric (general contractor), Jefferson Utilities
    (interconnection facilitator), and WPPI Energy (longterm electricity purchaser).
The Energy Policy
Summit is
a fitting venue to honor the people and organizations that
embraced the vision of energy selfsufficiency and job creation, and made it happen in
Wisconsin, said RENEW Wisconsins
Executive Director Tyler Huebner.
Their solar, wind, and bioenergy installations created jobs, reduced the flow of imported fossil
fuels
into Wisconsin, and demonstrated responsible environmental stewardship. They truly deserve the recognition, as well as everyones appreciation, Huebner said.
To learn more about
RENEW’s Energy Policy Summit, go to
http://renewwisconsin.org/2014_Summit/