Madison: Officials eye coal goals

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A U.S. District Court ruled last November that the University of Wisconsin-Madison Charter Street heating plant was in violation of the federal Clean Air Act. In response to that ruling, the state and the UW entered into an agreement with the Sierra Club to conduct a study about alternative energy options at Charter Street and three other plants in the city.

David Helbach, State Building Commission secretary, said the commission voted unanimously to appropriate $1.2 million for a "comprehensive study about how we can provide economical and environmentally friendly and reliable energy for campus and for downtown Madison," not only meeting the lawsuit requirements but going beyond to find the best solutions for the community.
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"Frankly, at the end of the day, the biggest challenge is that anything we do is going to cost a lot of money," [chancellor of facilities] Fish said. "And getting the state and the Legislature and, indirectly, taxpayers to make a huge investment so that we have clean reliable heating and cooling.

"It's going to cost hundreds of millions of dollars. And making, figuring out the answer that works all that way I think is in some ways the easier part, then getting the political will to invest that amount of money in that answer. That's going to be the hard part," Fish said.