State Policy Roadmaps
Wisconsin
Advanced Energy United’s resource, "Advanced Energy Creates Opportunities for Wisconsin: A Policy Roadmap for Wisconsin’s Next Governor," outlines how Wisconsin’s next Governor can support the expansion of affordable advanced energy generation and storage, increase the capacity and efficiency of the state’s energy infrastructure through grid resilience technologies, integrate advanced planning techniques to avoid unnecessary costs; and promote customer-facing technologies to make energy more affordable for consumers across the state.
To achieve these goals, Advanced Energy United’s recommendations for Wisconsin’s next Governor focus on these core tenets:
- Build it: To keep up with projected load growth, state and regional leaders can take action to accelerate the most reliable and affordable energy projects when we need them most. At the same time, they can build a stable pipeline of projects that will meet future residential, business, and industrial needs with advanced energy by reforming generation and transmission development processes related to planning, siting, permitting, interconnection, and procurement.
- Make it Flexible: Utilities can get more out of our existing grid infrastructure by making demand more flexible. This means scaling up distributed energy resources (DERs), energy efficiency (EE), virtual power plants (VPPs), and advanced vehicle and building electrification solutions via state programs, plans, and rates. These innovative technologies make it easier for grid operators to keep costs down in real-time and in the long run. They also prepare the grid for increased electricity demand from data centers, electric vehicles (EVs), heat pumps, and domestic manufacturing.
- Make it Affordable: State and regional leaders can take steps to ensure that our public utilities are planning, optimizing, and delivering the right types of energy investment at the lowest possible cost, while also identifying least-cost financing avenues for projects both big and small.
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