Wisconsin’s energy capability: generation, delivery, rates, and the decisions that shape them.
Data centers should pay the full cost of the power built to serve them, and Wisconsin should set the pace at which new load arrives so it never outruns the generation meant to meet it. Microsoft’s capital-led Mount Pleasant campus, built on ground assembled for Foxconn, shows the difference between paying your own way and being subsidized to fail.
How an investor-owned utility raises money, what regulation allows it to earn, and how those decisions become the rate on your bill, with Wisconsin as the running example.
My public comment in docket 5-ES-113. Wisconsin measures electric adequacy against a floor and nothing else, so it cannot tell surplus from being on course. I ask the Commission to add a target rate of demand growth and a band on excess capacity, and make ten reporting requests.
How to file a public comment in a Wisconsin PSC docket: what the form asks, what a comment is allowed to contain, how the record works, and what the Commission does with what you send.