Wisconsin consumers may greet an unfamiliar sight next year: lower electricity rates. Madison-area electric bills are set to go down a little bit next year under a new settlement negotiated between Madison Gas and Electric and several local non-profits. The settlement follows a similar agreement reached in May between the Citizens Utility Board […]
Wisconsin Energy Broadcast: Climate Forward Report 2017
Welcome to this month’s edition of the Wisconsin Energy Broadcast, brought to you by the Perpetual Notion Machine. Producers Heather Allen and Nan Fey talk with Chelsea Chandler, Director of Environmental Initiatives at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences Arts and Letters. Back in 2014, the academy published the Climate Forward Report, and have just published […]
Introducing the Wisconsin Energy Broadcast
In this special pledge drive edition of the Perpetual Notion Machine, we want to introduce you to a new feature of PNM called the Wisconsin Energy Broadcast. They will be presenting all kinds of topics related to renewable energy. And the show’s producers, Heather Allen and Nan Fey, are our guests. Heather and Nan describe […]
Wisconsin Energy Broadcast: MadiSUN Group Buy Solar Program
The Perpetual Notion Machine would like to welcome a new monthly feature to our program. The Wisconsin Energy Broadcast is about, well, energy, in all shapes and sizes that’s renewable. And WEB will go beyond the usual scope of science. In tonight’s episode, WEB producers Heather Allen and Nan Fey focus on the MadiSUN Group […]
Madison Going 100% Renewable Energy?
Yes, that’s right! Last March, the Madison Common Council passed a resolution to convert to 100% renewable energy. What a bold pledge to make! Can it even be done? So, the Perpetual Notion Machine invited Michael Vickerman on the program as our guest. Michael is the Program and Policy Director at ReNew Wisconsin, and is […]
Working Towards Clean Energy in Madison
Today we’re talking renewable energy – what it means and how to get there in Madison. Denise Demarb hosts Raj Shukla, Director of the River Alliance of Wisconsin; Satya Rhodes-Conway, Managing Director of the Mayors Innovation Project at COWS; and Tyler Huebner, Director of RENEW Wisconsin.