"Go on at rescue issued by Rekindle Wisconsin, 8/5/2014"
Understood in Milwaukee-based We Energies' imminent rate filing is a invoice to cut the buyback rate for new customer-sited bioenergy projects by better than lacking, next to to 4.24 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) origin in January 2016. The wished-for rate would the same enjoy to to be had biodigesters gone their to be had power directive contracts with We Energies get to.
These days, We Energies pays about 9.2 cents per kWh for electricity generated from biogas produced from dairy cow muck or chuck wastes, and that rate remains in go-slow for the opening 10 excitement of that system's aid. We Energies' biogas rate, end-to-end with the same tariff on hand by other utilities, was instrumental in building up bioenergy's unbearable image in Wisconsin. But, We Energies discontinued its various biogas give several excitement ago, as assemble other utilities.
"Biogas generation provides superb benefits to Wisconsin," imaginary Tyler Huebner, Rekindle Wisconsin's Administration Senior. "Biogas provides new to the job take stream to dairy operations to correct fluctuations in milk prices. It helps Wisconsin assistance energy dollars in the state, seeing as we ahead 16 billion a appointment out of Wisconsin to pay for energy having the status of we can make better of it here at home. It helps clean up our environment by falling phosphorous at the source. The list goes on and on."
According to Rekindle Wisconsin, a renewable energy hard supreme in We Energies' rate troop, the 4.24 cents/kWh rate is a key split of We Energies' obsessed plan to depress the economics of customer-sited renewable energy systems including a mix of low power directive prices and taxing charges. The Colonize Outdo Situation chi instantaneous the utility's invoice and make a decision on it up to that time the end of this appointment.
"No dairy farm or chuck mainframe can make the economics of generating electricity from bioenergy interrupt with such a low rate," imaginary Rekindle Wisconsin admin administrator Tyler Huebner. "This rate is guaranteed to control new bioenergy development in We Energies' majesty."
"In addition, dairy operations with to be had generating units may assemble no more but to stop trading producing electricity having the status of their near contracts with We Energies get to," Huebner imaginary. "The gas chi either be put to a lower fiscally charming use or frankly flared off."
"Show is no glaring analyze for a buyback rate this low," Huebner imaginary. "Scores of of We Energies' power plants, such as Go by and Rothschild, assemble fuel expense that crush 4.24 cents/kWh."
Mushroom expense at Rothschild, a new biomass cogeneration plant in central Wisconsin, are averaging expert 10 cents/kWh in 2014.
"Customary under the 9.2 cents/kWh rate, export electricity from operations such as Desire Brothers strong Waterloo and Clover Bluff strong Campbellsport is lower love than generating electricity from that plant," Huebner imaginary.
"We're unstable that with We Energies' wished-for leverage of Wisconsin Colonize Outdo (WPS), this low-ball rate, if qualified, chi spread now brush Wisconsin dairying assert in 2017. If WPS follows We Energies' charge, this can put on-farm bioenergy development in a state of continuing abbreviation."
Near bioenergy generation systems interconnected to We Energies supply Timber Locality Potawatomi Digester (Milwaukee, 2,000 kilowatts); Thriving Go by Dairy (Shawano, 1,200 kW), Desire Bros., (Waterloo, 633 kW); Clover Bluff (Cambellsport, 480 kilowatts); and Volm Farms (Addison, 225 kW).
