Empower customers to overcome institutional and cultural barriers to renewables in Wisconsin!

From a presentation by Michael Vickerman, Program and Policy Director, titled Progress or Retreat? Constructing a Viable Policy Road Map for Renewables in Wisconsin at the MREA Energy Fair, Custer, WI, June 16: 

• Climate change issue losing currency
• Natural gas emerging as the new silver bullet.  100 years’ supply at rock bottom prices?--NOT!!!!
• RE incentives have been rebranded as subsidies
• Utilities groaning under excess generating capacity 
• Revenue growth no longer a certainty 
• Investment is passé – cost-cutting now the rage.  Consequently, utilities are backpedaling from renewables 

 See the full presentation here.