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Wisconsin Academy Road Map Preview 4-22-14
Climate Forward:A New Road Map
for Wisconsin’s Climate and Energy Future
Starting the Conversation
Communication ChallengesMadison, WI
Innovators ShowcaseMilwaukee, WI
Charting a Way ForwardAshland, WI
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Project Guiding Principles
Reduce Wisconsin’s greenhouse gas emissions; foster natural carbon storage
Sustain healthy and resilient people, environments, and economies
Be both practical and effective
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, May 6, 2014
Climate ChangeWisconsin Impacts Floods, droughts, polluted runoff (extreme weather)
Lower lake levels, more rain and snow
Warm weather pests
Heat related illness; loss of dairy productivity
Loss of native species and ecosystem services, including forest impacts
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Our Challenging Wisconsin Energy Portfolio Heavy coal dependence
Natural gas is the current, economically-driven, “bridge” fuel
One remaining nuclear plant in WI
5.4% of total WI energy and 10.2% of electrical power comes from renewables (and half of that comes from outside WI)
Wisconsin sends $15.9 billion out of the state every year to buy fuel and energy
Negative Results fromBusiness as Usual Electrical rates are likely to become among
the most expensive in the region
Wisconsin will be highly vulnerable to any eventual price set on carbon
Renewable development and jobs will go to other states (already are)
Neighboring states gain competitive edge
Five Pathways to Progress
Efficiency and conservation Renewable energy Smarter transportation systems Natural carbon storage 21st century innovations
Wisconsin communities, corporations, farms, and families are already moving forward.
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Conservation & Efficiency
“Easy” but incremental steps
Bottom line already drives business efficiencies
Big opportunities in retrofits, lighting, process, and design
Strive for 2 percent increase in efficiency every year
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Conservation & Efficiency Leaders
West CAP retrofits
Johnson Controls
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Newenhouse Kit Homes
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Miller Coors
Many more
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Renewable Energy Embrace solar
Competitive prices for homes and buildings
Smart biomass Digesters and co-generation close to sources
Strategic windCareful siting, increasingly efficient turbines, learn from Minnesota and Iowa
Strive for 1-to-1.5% increase in renewable generation annually
Renewable Energy Leaders
City of Milwaukee
City of Monona
SC Johnson
Emerald Dairy
Photos: Kurt Reinhold, Heidi Clausen/Eau Claire Leader Telegram
Andrew Porter/imagesource.com
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, May 6, 2014
Smarter Transportation Emission standards/cleaner
fuels
Connect transportation to land-use decision-making
Reduce congestion & manage demand: ride-sharing, truck ports, fleet strategies
Smart freight and marine systems
Diversify transportation choices
travelwisconsin.com
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Natural Carbon Storage Dairy Grazing
Apprenticeship: pasture conservation
Fountain Prairie
Farms: wetland and prairie restoration
Public and private forest conservation
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, May 6, 2014
Game-Changing Attributes
Leadership from the top
Teamwork
Baselines and Metrics
Co-conservation across products and processes, energy, water, materials
Public-private partnerships
Telling the story
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, May 6, 2014
Leaders in the Vanguard of BIG CHANGE
Gundersen Health System
Organic Valley-CROPP
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, May 6, 2014
Wisconsin Needs to Have this Conversation What kind of Wisconsin do we
want to live in 10 years? In 50 years?
How do we better use our capacities?
The vanguard “gets it.” How do we spread the word?
80% reduction of fossil fuel emissions by 2050: Improve efficiency by 2% each year Increase renewables by 1-1.5% annually Modernize and diversify transportation Keep carbon in the soil 21st century sustainable business models Inform, educate and engage the public
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Some specific options Expand energy
retrofits for buildings Encourage
benchmarking Update building
codes Mandate renewable
increase Tax credits or loans
for co-generation
Allow third-party renewable own/lease option
High-speed rail from Chicago to Twin Cities
RTA initiatives Expand research in
soil carbon storage
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, May 6, 2014
Kwik Trip
West CAP
Quad/Graphics
Emerald Dairy
St. Croix Valley Eco-Village Project
MillerCoors
Milwaukee Municipal Sewerage District
Johnson Controls
Gunderson Health System
City of Madison
City of Monona
City of Milwaukee
Schneider
CROPP/Organic Valley
SC Johnson
Newenhouse Kit Homes
Profiles of the Vangaurd