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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

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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

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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

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Natural Carbon Storage Dairy Grazing

Apprenticeship: pasture conservation

Fountain Prairie

Farms: wetland and prairie restoration

Public and private forest conservation


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


Leaders in the Vanguard of BIG CHANGE

Gundersen Health System

Organic Valley-CROPP

Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District


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


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West CAP

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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


Kathy Kuntz

Michelle Miller

Keith Reopelle

Mary Schlaefer

Stan Temple

Roy Thilly

Xin Wang

Don Wichert

Ash Anandanarayanan

Peter Bakken

Meg Domroese

Tom Eggert

Jane Elder

Brenna Holzhauer

John Imes

Peter Kilde

Primary Contributors

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