Efficiency & Electrification – Citizens' Climate Lobby Wisconsin

February 20, 2025April 13, 2025 Phil Smith Efficiency & Electrification, Lobbying

IRA Benefits for Wisconsin: Key Facts, District Projects, and Resources

Phil Smith

In our December lobby meetings with Republican members of Congress (MOCs), we presented The IRA is Good for Business. Keep it in Place as our primary ask. Several aides said they would like additional details on Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) benefits to Wisconsinites. We have assembled a one-pager of IRA national and Wisconsin benefits (with awesome links), and included a lengthy table of specific projects benefiting from IRA funds organized by congressional district. Additional resources, such as media reports, are included on a second page. Liaisons, group leaders, and others are welcome to download the files, modify as you see fit and use the data in social media posts, letters to the editor (LTEs)/Op-eds, and other communications with your networks. Liaisons won’t forward to MOCs until CCL national tells us the time is ripe.

These files are also useful for other states since many of the links for Wisconsin benefits also contain information for other states. CCL national now has a database with both the E2 and Rhodium databases available for all states at this link.

IRA Impacts- Sum Wis 3-1-25 Download

IRA Impacts- Wisconsin Additional Resources (1)Download

Wis Facilities with IRA Funds Download

February 10, 2025April 13, 2025 Madeleine Para Efficiency & Electrification, Events

IRA Rebates Update from Focus on Energy – Event Recording & Other Resources

On Wednesday, January 29, 2025, CCL Wisconsin virtually hosted Brady Steigauf, Focus on Energy’s Community Liaison Manager, for a very educational presentation about the IRA rebates and other incentives for residents of Wisconsin for clean energy and efficiency. You can watch the recorded presentation here and view the presentation slides here.

We learned how Wisconsinites can benefit from the IRA rebates, as well as state and federal (and sometimes local utility) incentives, to save money and reduce our carbon pollution. Following are some additional important and useful found tools on Focus on Energy’s website:

https://focusonenergy.com/get-started is the best place to “Get Started” when you have home projects in mind and are curious what incentives exist locally to make energy improvements more affordable.
“How do businesses or nonprofits know where to start?” They’re a little more complex. Other than looking at their website for custom offerings for each business type, Focus on Energy’s Energy Advisors are regionally/locally based and provide one-on-one help. A map of the Business (nonprofits also use the same) Energy Advisors can be found here: https://focusonenergy.com/energy-advisor-map?program=businessCustomers
Wisconsin’s IRA Home energy rebates
IRA questions can be sent to this email address: iraher@focusonenergy.com.

We are grateful to Brady for sharing this excellent information and to Focus on Energy for managing the many energy-saving the rebates for Wisconsin!

January 20, 2025April 13, 2025 Madeleine Para Efficiency & Electrification, Events

Special Event: “Focus on Energy’s Update on IRA Home Energy Rebates” Wednesday, Jan. 29, 7 pm

Citizens’ Climate Lobby Wisconsin is excited to host Focus on Energy’s community liaison manager, Brady Steigauf. Come learn about IRA Home Energy Rebates & Focus on Energy incentives for beneficial electrification. Wisconsin is the first state in the country to launch the IRA Home Energy Rebate programs, thanks to our statewide Focus on Energy program. These rebate programs help make whole-home efficiency and/or electrification more affordable.

Find out how Wisconsinites can participate and benefit from state and federal (and sometimes local utility) incentives, including federal tax credits, to save money and reduce our carbon pollution.