Tag: Clean Energy
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Three Reasons to Replace Your Gas Stove or Oven (with Up to $840 Savings!)
Focus on Energy has just launched the second half of the Home Electrification and Appliance Rebate (HEAR) program. You can read more about HEAR on our HEAR 101 page, or at https://focusonenergy.com/ira-hear. This second part is the portion of the program where eligible households can get up to $840 in the form of a rebate…
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Fall Dates
We wanted to highlight a few dates that are fast approaching this autumn! Grow Solar – Green Bay Fourteen households have now taken advantage of the Grow Solar program to install solar PV panels on their rooftops. About a half dozen of these have already been installed and are producing electricity for their owners. You…
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The Post-Reconciliation Bill Landscape
Now that the Reconciliation Bill has been signed into law, it’s time to stand back up, dust ourselves off, and survey the landscape. Here’s the gist: Despite tax credits for renewable energy and related upgrades being broadly popular with the American public, H.R. 1 (“One Big Beautiful Bill,”) passed and represents a significant setback for…
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Run a tax exempt organization? Learn about funding clean energy projects with “direct pay” on May 5th
Forward Together Wisconsin (FTW) has put together an educational event focused on helping tax exempt organizations (like houses or worship, nonprofit organizations, and municipalities) find ways to leverage direct pay (sometimes called ‘elective pay’) to pay for clean energy projects. If you’re in the tax exempt ‘world,’ you may have looked at tax credits and…
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Another sign of spring: Bird scooters
If you’re looking for a sign of spring in Green Bay, the seasonal flock of Bird scooters currently roosting all over the city is as good as any robin. One morning, you wake up and there they are; just like buds on tree branches or your neighbor raking while wearing shorts even though it’s only…
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Cooking with induction cooktops with Rooted In! (As will be seen on TV)
We are pleased to announce that Energize Green Bay (as part of the City of Green Bay) has formed a partnership with Rooted In to get the word out about induction cooktops! We have donated two of them to the organization. These will be used to further their mission, including at live cooking demonstrations, classes,…
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You’re invited to a Neighborhood Clean Energy Info Session!
Between January 28th and March 25th, Energize Green Bay will be holding eight “neighborhood clean energy info sessions.” These will be held across the city. Wherever you live in Green Bay, there will be a session near you*. Alex, the Clean Energy Connector for the City of Green Bay, will give a presentation and field…
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The Future is HEAR!
Here’s something to celebrate! Yesterday, the State of Wisconsin and Focus on Energy launched the HEAR rebate program! HEAR is the engine behind the clean energy transition. It’s goal is to help move our homes away from the fuels of the past that have contributed to respiratory disease, environmental pollution, and other harms, to cleaner…
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Energize Green Bay launches today! (Also, it’s the 1-year anniversary of the Clean Energy Plan)
This December marks the one-year anniversary of the historic Clean Energy Green Bay plan. This plan put Green Bay on the path to fully transitioning to clean energy by 2050. The City of Green Bay is marking this occasion with the launch of Energize Green Bay, a public outreach campaign that will serve to help…
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Home energy audits are the key
Did you leave the window open? Maybe that’s why your home feels drafty in the winter and hard-to-heat in the summer… What’s that? You checked all your windows and they’re closed? Sorry, I meant a metaphorical window. According to Dan Guse, owner of Home Energy Solutions, all of the tiny gaps in your house’s ‘building…