By Mickey Schommer
Contributing Writer
GREEN BAY – In the fall of 2022, the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) was awarded $300,000 in an effort to reduce energy consumption by installing environmentally-positive battery storage systems at the Great Lakes Energy Education Center on the campus.
This project was recently finished and has helped the center become a nearly net-zero building, which means that it produces nearly as much energy as it consumes.
“The problem with [being nearly net-zero] is we don’t produce the energy when we need it,” John Hippensteel, instructor of solar energy at NWTC. “We sell back to WPS 60% of the energy that we produce because…
