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Residents urge Milwaukee to use purchasing power to press WE Energies for renewable investment

5898969 · October 6, 2025
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Speakers told the council to use the city's leverage as a major customer of WE Energies and to continue funding the Environmental Collaboration Office to accelerate renewable energy investment and climate resilience.

Residents and climate advocates urged the Common Council to fund climate planning and use the city’s leverage with the private utility WE Energies to accelerate renewable energy investment.

Annie Carroll, who said she lives in Alder Alex Bowers’s district, urged the council to ‘‘consider what influence it can exert on WE Energies’’ and to push the utility for ‘‘transparency and…

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