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===Energy=== {{See also|Focus on Energy|Wind power in Wisconsin|Solar power in Wisconsin}} Wisconsin has no production of oil, gas, or coal.<ref name="eia-sedb">{{cite web|url=http://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=WI#tabs-3|title=U.S. Energy Information Administration—EIA—Independent Statistics and Analysis|access-date=December 20, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220173535/http://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=WI#tabs-3|archive-date=December 20, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Its in-state electrical generation is mostly from coal. Other important electricity sources are natural gas and nuclear.<ref name="eia-sedb" /> The state has a mandate that ten percent of its electrical energy come from renewable sources by the end of 2015.<ref>[http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/13/3448779/wisconsin-hits-renewable-goal-early/]{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220172307/http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/13/3448779/wisconsin-hits-renewable-goal-early/|date=December 20, 2014}} Thinkprogress—Wisconsin hits renewable goal</ref> This goal has been met, but not with in-state sources. {{As of|2014}}, a third of that ten percent comes from out-of-state sources, mostly wind-generated electricity from Minnesota and Iowa. The state has agnostic policies for developing wind power in state.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://union-bulletin.com/news/2014/sep/08/wind-power-industry-grows-so-does-opposition/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141220161722/http://union-bulletin.com/news/2014/sep/08/wind-power-industry-grows-so-does-opposition/|url-status=dead|title=As wind power industry grows, so does opposition—Walla Walla Union|date=December 20, 2014|archive-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref>
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