CO-DISCOVERY
Interdisciplinary Fusion Energy and Energy Storage Workshops
Facilitated workshops convene researchers from an array of specialties to help tackle complex clean energy challenges. Recent workshops focusing on problem-solving research in fusion energy and energy storage brought diverse sets of stakeholders together to co-discover pathways, teams, and strategies toward advancing individual and collective goals. These workshops are bringing cross-disciplinary researchers, technology developers, and industry together to further explore research and mobilization pathways for a variety of new and emerging technologies. Whether deciding teams to take on new funding opportunities or building academic and industrial relationships, interdisciplinary workshops help bring thoughtful energy solutions to Wisconsin communities.
Life Sciences Communication: Energy Workshop
Early workshops helping establish the framework for CECI’s facilitated approach, engaged statewide energy transition leaders in two full-day workshops. Participants engaged in a survey, group activities and discussions, mental mapping exercises, and more, to explore perceptions of local energy management and inform potential future efforts for the clean energy transition in Wisconsin. Workshop findings will be published soon, but a preliminary summary notes the workshops were a successful way to engage stakeholders in co-creating knowledge as well as to set a benchmark upon which future community-engaged partnerships can equip and prepare community leaders for engaging their own communities in local energy decisions.
CO-DESIGN
Midwest Tribal Energy Resources Association and UW–Madison partner to accelerate community-led clean energy projects
Re-envisioning the role individual communities play in the acceleration and implementation of clean energy projects, the Midwest Tribal Energy Resources Association (MTERA) and the Clean Energy Community Initiative, a campus-wide effort originated by the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Grainger Institute for Engineering, are partnering on a new approach.
UW–Madison supports multi-million-dollar U.S. clean energy project to benefit rural Wisconsin communities
WESTBY, WIS. — The University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering is a partner in a major new project led by Dairyland Power Cooperative that will create well-paying jobs, significantly reduce emissions and lower energy costs for rural Wisconsin communities.
Dairyland Power Cooperative, with UW-Madison’s support, wins over $28M to develop battery storage facilities in rural communities
Dairyland has received a $28M+ award from a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) cooperative agreement to strengthen grid resilience and advance the clean energy transition by bringing Long-Duration Energy …
UW–Madison supports multi-million-dollar U.S. clean energy project to benefit rural Wisconsin communities
WESTBY, WIS. — The University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering is a partner in a major new project led by Dairyland Power Cooperative that will create well-paying jobs, significantly reduce emissions and lower energy costs for rural Wisconsin communities.
Midwest Tribal Energy Resources Association and UW–Madison partner to accelerate community-led clean energy projects
Re-envisioning the role individual communities play in the acceleration and implementation of clean energy projects, the Midwest Tribal Energy Resources Association (MTERA) and the Clean Energy Community Initiative, a campus-wide effort originated by the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Grainger Institute for Engineering, are partnering on a new approach.
- More of CECI's Co-Design Initiatives
MOBILIZATION
With UW-Madison assist, groundbreaking project could accelerate nation’s clean energy transition
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers are supporting a first-of-its-kind energy storage system in the United States that could come online as early as 2026 in Wisconsin’s Columbia County.
Bad River to employ a renewable-powered minigrid, with UW’s Clean Energy Community Initiative to assist community engagement
$14.1M from the Department of Energy Office of Clean Energy Demonstration’s Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas Program will bring a 5MW solar photovoltaic array and an 8 MWh battery storage system to form a hybrid minigrid in northern Wisconsin.
Bad River plans electrification, solar projects, and job creation with $8M grant and UW support
The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians was awarded over $8M through an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) to reduce their community’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Tribe plans …
Dairyland Power Cooperative, with UW-Madison’s support, wins over $28M to develop battery storage facilities in rural communities
Dairyland has received a $28M+ award from a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) cooperative agreement to strengthen grid resilience and advance the clean energy transition by bringing Long-Duration Energy …
- More of CECI's Mobilization