About Wisconsin Clean Cities

The mission of Wisconsin Clean Cities (WCC) is to reduce dependence on petroleum-based fuels, promote the use of alternative fuels and technologies, and improve air quality. WCC strives to advance our nation's economic, environmental and energy security by supporting local actions to reduce petroleum consumption in the transportation sector.

Wisconsin Clean Cities partners with stakeholders in the public and private sectors to deploy:

• Alternative and Renewable Fuels
• Idle Reduction Technology
• Fuel Economy Measures; and
• Emerging Transportation Technologies.

Wisconsin Clean Cities is a 501c3 tax-exempt, stand alone, non-profit organization that is a designated U.S. Department of Energy's Clean Cities coalition serving the state of Wisconsin.

WCC initiatives spur new demand for alternative fuel vehicle products that in turn, stimulates infrastructure development. These initiatives ultimately assist the national market by challenging the industry to develop product lines and new technologies to meet the constantly changing demands of consumer and fleet vehicle markets.

Wisconsin Clean Cities' History

Wisconsin Clean Cities was established in June 1994, and was located within the state Department of Administration's (DOA) Madison office building, under the Bureau of Transportation Services.

The WCC organization had direct benefit to the Governor's Alternative Fuels Task Force by serving as a community-government-business partnership of select industry participants in the Southeastern Wisconsin severe ozone nonattainment region, encompassing Waukesha, Washington, Ozaukee, Kenosha, Milwaukee and Racine counties.

In 1998, the WCC program made the transition to the Southeastern Wisconsin ozone nonattainment area and became an independent, self-sustaining coalition within the Southeastern Wisconsin community. In July 1999, Wisconsin Clean Cities hired its first Executive Director, and was housed out of the downtown office of the local utility We Energies. Today, Wisconsin Clean Cities is housed in the same building.

Since its inception, Wisconsin Clean Cities has grown since its humble beginnings. In 2011, WCC started an initiative to expand its designation to encompass the entire state in order to reflect the work they do outside of Southeastern Wisconsin.

In the last 18 years, the Board of Directors has increased from five members to over twelve, membership is at a decade high, and the number of stakeholders is well over 2,000. Since 2005, WCC and its partners has displaced almost 13 million gasoline gallons equivalent of petroleum through the promotion of alternative fuels and advanced technology vehicles.