Badger Energy Bulletin
Happy Fourth: 249 years of American energy use
As the nation prepares to celebrate its birthday Friday, the U.S. Energy Information Administration has pulled together some data on how energy consumption has changed over the past 249 years.
Badger Energy Bulletin: Wisconsin gets a new weather dashboard; budget, staff cuts threaten hurricane forecasts
A new website for Wisconet, how budget and staff cuts threaten hurricane forecasts, impacts of the House's budget bill, plus prospects for new gas and nuclear generation.
Badger Energy Bulletin: Data centers, blackouts, the fate of the IRA, and more...
Wisconsin utilities are gearing up to provide power for several proposed data centers, each of which could use as much electricity as an entire city. Who will foot the bill?
Wisconsin lawmakers, startups envision a nuclear energy renaissance
Just a few years ago, the technology seemed to be heading for the exits, at least in the United States. But with new data centers threatening to overwhelm the current grid, nuclear power — including traditional fission plants, experimental small reactors, and potentially fusion — could be on the verge of a renaissance.
A force of nature: quantifying the energy output of wild animals
By digging, burrowing, eating, stomping, and piling, wild animals expend at least 76,000 gigajoules per year reshaping the planet, the equivalent of half a million extreme floods.
After the sand rush: How one county is trying to leverage idled fracking infrastructure to attract bioenergy development
Chippewa County is one of the nation’s first Biofuel Development Opportunity Zones, a designation signalling readiness for bio-based manufacturing. With the frac sand industry in retreat, the goal is to leverage the massive rail terminals left behind to capitalize on the county’s rich agricultural resources.
2024 was the dawn of Wisconsin's solar era, but there are clouds on the horizon
Renewable sources accounted for a record-high 10% of Wisconsin's electricity output in 2024 as a raft of new projects helped double solar energy output.
A final four like no other
In a Final Four like no other, scientists from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center met Tuesday in the Wisconsin Energy Institute to represent four tiny yet mighty bioenergy champions.
Wisconsin flunks energy democracy
When it comes to providing affordable, reliable, and clean electricity — and empowering citizens to share the economic benefits — Wisconsin is failing.