Organic Valley, a U.S. cooperative of organic farmers, is launching a community solar partnership resulting in over 31 MW of solar in the Midwest. The project will enable Organic Valley to become 100% renewably powered and share the benefits of solar with its rural neighbors. Last October, Organic Valley committed to achieve 100% renewable power at its corporate facilities. In total, 13 communities across the Midwest will benefit from the...

LA FARGE, Wis., Thirteen Midwest communities to benefit from 31 megawatts of new solar, 33 percent increase within the state of Wisconsin Dr. Bronner's joins partnership to become 100 percent renewably powered Organic Valley, America's largest cooperative of organic farmers and a leading organic brand, today announced details of the first-of-its-kind community solar partnership launched last year. The project enables Organic Valley to share...

"The City’s decision to provide financing to this project represents the largest commitment to date by a single Wisconsin customer to expanding solar capacity here." MADISON, Wis., Aug. 22, 2018 - A recently signed contract between the City of Madison and OneEnergy Renewables, LLC, a solar developer headquartered in Seattle, will result in the construction of five community solar arrays totaling 14 megawatts (MW) next year in western...

MADISON, Wis., August 9, 2018 - Wisconsin state government isn’t exactly a champion of green energy these days. One analyst has called the state “an island of renewable-energy stagnation amid a sea of growth.” But Eric Udelhofen, project developer for OneEnergy Renewables’ midwest branch, has hope. “I think there is a lot of opportunity in Wisconsin for renewable energy,” Udelhofen...

MADISON, Wis., June 26, 2018 - A proposed resolution was introduced at last week's City Council meeting that would put Madison on the path to transition into 100 percent renewable energy use. The measure would authorize the city to enter a contract with OneEnergy for the annual purchase and sale of renewable energy credits from years 2019-2023. The annual payments for the five year contract will be: $389,059 (2019), $354,170 (2020), $390,962...

MADISON, Wis., May 2, 2018 - Xcel Energy will move ahead with construction of a 1-megawatt solar garden due to customer support. The new garden is approximately 70 percent subscribed, leaving 30 percent available. The garden is part of the Solar*Connect Community, which is currently Wisconsin’s largest community solar garden program. OneEnergy Renewables, a leading developer of community and utility-scale solar projects across the country,...

PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 24 - In partnership with Net Impact, OneEnergy Renewables and 3Degrees are thrilled to announce the 2018 class of Energy Scholars. From left to right: Bhuvan Neema, Michelle Davis, Krisztina Pjeczka,Josh Constanti, Kayla Kutter, Jaydeep Laljani, Taylor Price and Nitish Garg. The Energy Scholar program, now in its seventh year, is designed to cultivate and empower tomorrow’s renewable energy...

MADISON, Wis., January 8, 2018 - Xcel Energy plans to develop a one-megawatt solar garden in Ashland as part of its Solar*Connect Community program. This would be the third solar garden in this program, which promises clean energy benefits to communities in return for local buy-in. A community solar garden in Eau Claire has been generating energy since October 2017, and a facility in the La Crosse area is on track to go live in fall 2018. If...

Did you know that almost half the energy needed to power National Geographic Society headquarters now comes from solar energy? National Geographic is purchasing the renewable resource from Baker Point Solar, Cypress Creek Renewables’ first solar site in Maryland, a facility that also provides an important habitat for pollinators like bees and butterflies, helping to maintain a planet in balance. Mike Ulica, the Society’s executive vice...

From the crest of a small hill, the scale of the OneEnergy Baker Point solar array starts to come into view. The gently sloping 60-acre parcel of farmland is now home to more than 34,000 solar panels that span a majority of the property. Owners Glenn Eaves Jr. and Rebecca Eaves welcomed elected officials and members of the public to the farm in mid-November for an up-close look at the panels, generators and pollinator habitat installed on...

Partnership with WGL Energy, National Geographic, Monumental Sports and Entertainment, and OneEnergy Renewables, to generate clean, affordable solar energy and support local agriculture and public schools. Today Maryland Secretary of the Environment Ben Grumbles and State Senator Michael Hough were joined by executives from Cypress Creek Renewables, the National Geographic Society, Monumental Sports and Entertainment, OneEnergy Renewables, and...

50 Acres Of Solar Projects Planned Through Partnership With Municipal Utilities, Solar Company [audio mp3="http://www.oneenergyrenewables.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/nws171106-HK-OVSOLAR1.mp3"][/audio] Organic Valley is helping launch several new solar projects in southwestern Wisconsin. The farmer cooperative has agreed to buy power from a group of municipal utilities in order to fund more than 12 megawatts of solar projects in Wisconsin,...

Almost 30 years ago, seven organic farmers from the U.S. Midwest, unhappy with the state of American agriculture, decided to band together and form a cooperative to continue farming sustainably. Today, the Organic Valley agricultural cooperative, headquartered in La Farge, Wisconsin, is made up of over 2,000 farmers in 36 states. And the cooperative just became part of a unique community solar partnership that will allow it to become the...

La Farge-based Cooperative Organic Valley has partnered with solar developer OneEnergy Renewables and the Upper Midwest Municipal Energy Group on the project, the La Crosse Tribune reported. It’s expected to create about 29 megawatts of solar capacity in up to a dozen municipal utilities. "Our future demands bold new thinking about our sources of energy, and there is nothing more natural to a farmer than harnessing the power of the sun and the...

In the scheme of things, the power purchase agreement disclosed last month by dairy cooperative Organic Valley isn't very big — slightly less than 13 megawatts of solar in phase one of the project. That's exactly why it’s a noteworthy sign of progress for the corporate clean power procurement movement. Under the deal announced in late October, the organization has entered into what it describes as a "first-of-its-kind" community solar...

In a quest to become the world’s largest food company to get all its electricity from renewable sources, Organic Valley is planning a major investment in solar electricity that could substantially increase Wisconsin’s solar capacity and reduce electric bills for rural consumers. A partnership between the La Farge-based cooperative, solar developer OneEnergy Renewables and the Upper Midwest Municipal Energy Group is expected to result in about...

OneEnergy Renewables and Organic Valley, America’s largest cooperative of organic farmers and a leading organic brand, today announced a first-of-its-kind community partnership that will enable the farmer-owned cooperative to become the largest food company in the world to source 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources. “Our future demands bold new thinking about our sources of energy, and there is nothing more natural to a...

  In May 2017, Governor Larry Hogan signed the Department of Natural Resources — Solar Generation Facilities — Pollinator-Friendly Designation (SB1158) bill into law. It was strongly supported by the Senate and General Assembly. SB 1158 establishes a state preference and a process for supporting co-locating pollinator-friendly habitat with a commercial ground-mounted solar facility. This new Maryland law will not only help...

While working as a teacher in Mumbai, Sanjna Malpani ’17 M.E.M. was shocked that many students weren't able to do their homework because of insufficient light in their homes. So Malpani and some friends helped introduce new sources of illumination using only plastic bottles and water. A few years back, while teaching environmental science to students in a slum neighborhood of Mumbai, Sanjna Malpani ’17 M.E.M. was alarmed to find that...

OneEnergy Renewables’ Eric Udelhofen and Fresh Energy’s Rob Davis led a recent webinar focused on the science and safety of photovoltaic solar and the growing trend of planting pollinator habitat under and around ground-mounted solar panels. Enjoy watching here. In 2016 alone, nearly 2,500 acres of solar sites in Minnesota and Wisconsin were seeded with millions of native flowers and grasses including black-eyed susans, side-oats grama, purple...