A Wisconsin legislative committee has scheduled a meeting on March 1 to discuss suspending the state’s new uniform standards for wind farm siting, according to AWEA.

The meeting takes place on the same day that the new Public Service Commission rule, PSC 128, is scheduled to take effect.

The new standards, which we reported on in January, are a first-in-the-nation attempt to create a consistent set of standards for wind developers to follow, potentially avoiding local-level regulatory fights.

Ken is the director of the Energy News Network at Fresh Energy, and has led the project from its inception as Midwest Energy News in 2009. Prior to joining Fresh Energy, he was the managing editor for online news at Minnesota Public Radio. He started his journalism career in 2002 as a copy editor for the Duluth News Tribune before spending five years at the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, where he held a variety of editing, production, and leadership roles, and played a key role in the newspaper's transition to digital-first publishing. A Nebraska native, Ken has a bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a master's degree from the University of Oregon.