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...