2023 LSC Annual Meeting
Date/Time: Wednesday, December 6th
- 6:00-6:45pm: Gather, socialize, and enjoy food, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages
- 6:45-7:45pm: Annual Meeting presentation
- 7:45-8:30pm: Socialize/network
Location: Lau Christensen Room, Brassworks Building, Goodman Center, 214 Waubesa Street, Madison, WI 53704
Regardless of your status as an Annual Member, a Lifetime Member, as a representative of an Institution Member, or even just curious about becoming a member of our cooperative, you are invited to attend and participate in the review of our work in solar since our last member meeting this past December and what lies ahead for us in 2024.
See 2023 Annual Report and 2023 Annual Meeting Presentation.
Musical Guest: Haley Haerr-Hartmann
A musician based in Madison, Haley loves to busk downtown and play music with friends. She’ll be playing folk, rock and pop tunes from a span of decades. Thank you for your past and ongoing support for our Co-op, our Mission, and our Vision for maximizing the opportunities for individuals and organizations to “go solar” and to minimize the cost of participating in solar projects. To date, we have helped finance, manage, or support almost 6 Megawatts of solar development behind-the-meter (distributed generation) in Wisconsin. By the end of 2023, we will have facilitated an additional 20 systems throughout the state.
Our work in 2023
Our work has continued to increase after the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), signed by President Biden in August of 2022. The IRA provides extended support until 2032 for residents, nonprofits, municipalities, tribes and businesses seeking to reduce their carbon footprint investing in clean energy technologies like solar. Some of the main provisions are an increase of the Federal Tax Credit from 26% to 30%, a direct pay to nonprofits of 30% and additional savings for projects that are located in low-income areas, energy communities or that use U.S. made products.
We still have a long way to go to curb emissions and bring our state, our country, and our planet into a net carbon balance in our atmosphere that will limit the worst of climate change to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Every fraction of a degree fought for will save millions of lives. As members of the co-op, you are not only helping us provide a solar roadmap as an example for others, we are making our way down that road toward a cleaner future for all.
We are considering expanding our current board of directors, so let us know if you are interested in learning more. We will notify all members with any actionable decisions that are known before the start of the meeting.
Please note: Only one vote per member is allowed on any actionable motions that come up during the business meeting portion of the evening. Only members who receive a ballot before the meeting or who are in-person on the day of the meeting can cast votes.
We are linking our 2023 Annual Report, which outlines the Co-op’s successes and numbers of solar projects and kilowatts installed, kWhs saved, and much more about the economics of solar and the financial status and our goals and prognoses for attaining them going forward. 2023 is proving to be a very bright year for solar, and I hope you will join us in investing in more solar for our future and with that, do well by doing good.
