This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Ben Lipari, director of useful resource growth for Alliant Power.
Lipari discusses the corporate’s renewable power transition plans, outlined in Alliant Power’s Clear Power Blueprint that features reducing all coal from its era fleet by 2040.
“Clear power has turn out to be more cost effective and delivers important financial and environmental in addition to monetary advantages to the purchasers and communities that we function in,” he stated. “Investing in photo voltaic power means lowering our long-term reliance on coal-powered era as we work towards reaching our carbon discount objectives.”
The corporate’s lately accomplished Bear Creek Photo voltaic Mission is the primary of 12 utility-scale photo voltaic tasks being developed throughout Wisconsin. Lipari stated three extra are anticipated to come back on-line later this yr.
“That would go away eight further tasks which are in numerous levels of development, and we anticipate most of these to be accomplished by the top of ‘23 with potential for a number of the tasks to be accomplished in early ‘24,” he stated.
Lipari additionally discusses how the corporate has been navigating provide chain challenges, and shares his ideas on different trade tendencies such because the rise of neighborhood photo voltaic era.
Hearken to the podcast under, sponsored by UW-Madison:
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