Journal Times editorial: We Energies makes a welcome turn to `green energy`


Journal Times editorial: We Energies makes a welcome turn to `green energy`


Talk about a sea change. We read with interest the news reports last week that WEC Energy Group, the parent company of We Energies and Wisconsin Public Service Corp., was planning large investments in solar and wind power, along with natural gas for electric power generation.

The plans include investing $390 million in two solar projects that would generate 300 megawatts of electric power — enough to supply electricity for more than 70,000 residential residential customers in northeast Wisconsin, according to a report last week in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel....

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Ken Notes: I tend to agree, the best part is that these investments actually are economically sound. Since the recent rate shifts allowed the utilities to charge more for the infrastructure it should be incumbent upon them to become large players in renewable energy. They actually promised this!

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