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businesswire | April 11, 2023

Madison Gas and Electric's (MGE) newest wind farm is fully operational and delivering cost-effective, carbon-free energy to the electric grid. MGE partnered with Wisconsin Public Service (WPS), a subsidiary of WEC Energy Group, on the 92-megawatt (MW) Red Barn Wind Farm. MGE owns 9.1 MW of the wind farm in the Grant County towns of Clifton and Wingville. "This is an exciting time for MGE as the Red Barn Wind Farm begins to generate cost-effective, carbon-free electricity ...

Microsoft | February 02, 2020

Microsoft has announced a plan to become carbon negative by 2030 and to remove all the carbon they have emitted since their founding by 2050. The company will need to remove more carbon from the air than they release each year to become carbon negative. Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Officer Lucas Joppa tells ABC Audio climate change is the reason. “We looked at the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] best available science and a fairly alarming report that came out in 2018, the Specia...

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Squadron Energy | December 12, 2022

Squadron Energy (Squadron) announced it has acquired CWP Renewables (CWP), in an agreement that takes Squadron's renewable energy operating portfolio to 2.4 gigawatts (GW) with an Australian development pipeline to 20GW. Squadron, part of the Tattarang group of companies, is 100 per cent Australian owned and operated, and dedicated to accelerating Australia's decarbonisation. Once fully operational, Squadron's portfolio will provide enough electricity to power 8.5 mill...

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Tigo Energy, Inc | January 06, 2021

Tigo Energy, Inc., the worldwide leader in Flex-MLPE (Module Level Power Electronics), announced today that Charged Up Energy has chosen Tigo’s Optimizers and SMA inverters as its preferred UL PV Rapid Shutdown System (PVRSS) for residential PV customers. This offering comes following the buyout of an SMA investment by Tigo’s management team in the summer of 2020. The California installer will use the TS4-A-O with any one of the 18 different SMA single phase inverter models, ranging ...