by Jeff Flynt

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WTAQ) - A wind energy company has canceled plans to install 100 high-tech windmills south of Green Bay.

Invenergy of Chicago said it could not justify spending money on the project while, “uncertainty persists” over the state regulations it would work under.

Recently, a state legislative committee threw out what would have been the state’s first uniform policies for locating wind energy farms. And even some Republicans have expressed reservations about a plan by Governor Scott Walker to create tighter restrictions on where high-tech wind turbines can be located.

In the meantime, the only wind energy regulations in Wisconsin are a hodgepodge of local limits. Invenergy had put its Brown County project on hold while awaiting the Public Service Commission policies that lawmakers rejected.

Last week, the firm told the PSC it would cancel its leasing contracts with local landowners for the new turbines. In the meantime, Invenergy says it will keep developing less expensive wind projects in Wisconsin. And the firm said it would increase its wind projects in other states that, “offer more regulatory certainty.”