MGE: Make Madison’s 100% goals a 100% reality!

With your help, Madison passed a groundbreaking, community-wide goal of 100% renewable energy in March, but our utility, Madison Gas & Electric (MGE), still hasn’t gotten on board.

Now city leaders are considering a partnership with Madison Gas & Electric on a series of joint projects like solar installations, electric vehicles, and energy efficiency. While these are great efforts, they aren’t enough to reach our goals. The fact is that MGE still gets more than two-thirds of its power from dirty coal, and only plans to be less than a third renewable by 2030. That’s too little, too late, especially when other cities are planning to leave us in the dust (or toxic coal ash).

Together, the City of Madison and MGE can make our 100% renewable goals a 100% reality. Tell MGE to rise to the challenge.

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Dear Madison City Leaders and MGE Executives: All across America, cities are demonstrating courage, leadership, and hope for the future by committing to 100% renewable electricity goals. We are proud to count Madison among those national leaders. Likewise, Dane County has affirmed its leadership position with its commitment to the goals and spirit of the Paris Climate Agreement. Now it’s time to make those goals a reality. The challenge is on: other cities have set the target date of 2035 for moving their electricity beyond coal and fossil fuels to 100% renewables. City of Madison and MGE leaders: don’t leave us in the dust--or toxic coal ash! While we encourage any efforts between the City and MGE to move away from coal and other fossil fuels, we are missing our opportunity to lead on this issue as long as MGE’s plans for renewables stop short at “30% by 2030.” City leaders, please take our 100% goals directly to MGE and work together to develop a plan for our entire community. The future of our city, our state, and our planet truly depends upon it. Madison has a proud history of being a national leader for our innovative, progressive government and businesses. We cannot allow our current addiction to coal to hold us back as other areas create new jobs and develop new technologies and solutions for energy, transportation, and quality of life based on clean, safe, reliable renewable resources. Work together to get our community to 100% renewable electricity, and we will support you 100%.