MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - The Wisconsin Public Service Commission has finalized wind siting rules, but not everyone is pleased.
Michael Vickerman, executive director of Renew Wisconsin, which advocated for the statewide standards, said the new rules will give the wind industry something the local rules don’t - certainty. Vickerman says the patchwork of local rules left the industry feeling it couldn’t have any confidence in what terms and conditions it would have to deal with – because those rules kept changing.
In 2009, Wisconsin lawmakers passed an act directing the PSC to formulate the statewide rules, which the legislature must now approve.
