ChargePoint (NYSE: CHPT), a global leader in electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions, today announced that the company is enabling Midwestern Wheels, a licensee of Avis Budget Group, to deliver reliable EV charging to its rental car customers and those living in their local communities. New public charging deployments at Midwestern Wheels’ … [continued]
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin — The Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC) is considering a new rate structure on data centers that favors profits and protections for Big Tech companies and We Energies, putting Wisconsinites at risk to subsidize the infrastructure costs needed for these billion-dollar companies to run their data centers. We Energies is … [continued]
SUPERIOR, Wisconsin — On Friday, in a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission filing by Minnesota Power, the company announced that it will withdraw from the proposed Nemadji Trail Energy Center (NTEC) gas plant project, which it had been developing with Dairyland Power Cooperative (based in Wisconsin) and Basin Electric Power Cooperative (based … [continued]
MADISON, Wisconsin – A new toolkit is available to help Wisconsinites take action to protect their communities as Big Tech companies continue to look to build energy-hungry hyperscale data centers in the state. “Hyperscale Data Centers in Wisconsin: Big Tech Unchecked” provides information for people to learn more about data centers, data … [continued]
A steady stream of good EV charging news has been coming in lately in the US. This one is for new fast chargers at 26 businesses in Wisconsin. The $14 million in funding is from federally funded grants. ‘“WisDOT is pleased to help offer drivers reliable and convenient places to … [continued]
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin — Today, State Sen. Habush Sinykin and Rep. Angela Stroud introduced new legislation to bolster transparency and accountability as more tech companies look to build data centers across Wisconsin. There is currently no requirement that data centers pay the full costs of the extra infrastructure or pressure on the … [continued]
Fresh activity is brewing in the US public EV charging station network as the federal NEVI funding program kicks back into life.
Here at CleanTechnica we have had the privilege of reporting on some rather large EV charger installations, such as the one with over 1,200 charging ports in British Columbia and one in the San Francisco Bay with 143. The installation of four new high-speed EV charging ports in northern Wisconsin … [continued]
A lawsuit in Wisconsin filed by Our Children’s Trust seeks to overturn laws that limit approvals of renewable energy projects.
Join Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, and the National Association of State Energy Officials on August 8th, from 1–3 p.m. CT, for the third in a series of virtual, interactive regional webinars on grid resilience planning. State representatives from Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, … [continued]
