Lansing lawmakers face a critical decision: Should Michigan restore the monopoly that the state's dominant energy companies — Consumers Energy and Detroit...
A Bloomfield Hills investor hopes to erect electricity-generating wind turbines on a tract of Monroe Township farmland, but is worried he might have trouble...
Governor Granholm is scheduled to speak at the Michigan Energy Fair on Friday, June 27 at 2:30. The Energy Fair will be back for its third year on June 27-29...
The next meeting of the Michigan Wind Working Group will be at the Michigan Energy Fair on Friday, June 27, 5:00-5:50 in the Pavilion. We will have updates on...
A Scio Township remodeling company will install Washtenaw County's first wind turbine on Wednesday, kicking off its marketing of turbines for individual homes....
With plans to develop wind turbines on 40,000 acres in Michigan's Thumb region, Detroit Edison is at ground zero in the debate over how to grow renewable...
More companies, individuals and government officials are seeking energy and fuel alternatives as prices continue to rise. Close to 400 people attended a...
BANGOR, Mich. - Maynard Kaufman always has been a step ahead of the environmental movement. He was a generation ahead of today's organic movement, growing...
There's interest in wind energy in St. Joseph County. That seems a reasonable conclusion after the "Wind Energy Program" event on June 16 at Glen Oaks...
Michigan would need to get 7 percent of its energy from environmentally friendly sources by 2015 under a Senate energy reform package pushed out of the upper...
ONEKAMA — Wearing a green blazer, Gov. Jennifer Granholm's wardrobe matched her message Friday when she gave opening remarks at this year's Great Lakes...
By Bill O'Brien, The Record-Eagle, Traverse City, Mich. Jun. 27--ONEKAMA -- Green is the theme at this weekend's Michigan Energy Fair -- green as in renewable...
ALPINE TOWNSHIP -- Farmers facing pressure to lease their land to competing wind energy companies are hearing a stern message: Get a lawyer. "I want people to...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Senate appears ready to attempt a contentious rewrite of the state's electricity law. Republicans hope to propose a plan...
Some Northeast Michigan residents wanting to go green have run into government roadblocks before installing residential wind turbines. The wind turbine...
By John Cavanagh Herald-Journal Writer Elbridge Township is the latest Oceana County community to blip on the wind farm radar screen, and those blips are in...
Can wind turbines power an economic revival in Michigan? Not yet. Wind turbine manufacturing is basically nonexistent in Michigan. (Not to mention wind...
Governor Granholm spoke at the Michigan Energy Fair on June 27. The Governor announced that Mascoma Corp. has decided to build its first commercial-scale...
MPSC Establishes Michigan Planning Consortium to Examine Electricity Infrastructure Planning and Ways to Reduce Costs July 1, 2008 The Michigan Public Service...
Once known for its dirty industry, Downriver town forms fresh identity with alternative power projects. Tanveer Ali / The Detroit News WYANDOTTE -- While high...
The most dominant geographic feature of Michigan's Thumb is its overwhelming flatness. Like Monroe County, the area was once bottom muck in prehistoric...
NEAR HART, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - The plans are falling into place for West Michigan's first commercial wind farm. A company called Michigan Wind wants to set...
Wind energy is on its way to Bay City, and city officials say they're blown away. Bay City's first wind turbine and a series of photovoltaic solar collectors...
The Essex, Conn. wind energy developer Noble Environmental Power Tuesday announced that construction on Michigan's newest windpark is under way around the...
Bay City Times City's first windmill to power new DEQ building Tuesday, July 08, 2008 By RYAN J. STANTON Wind energy is on its way to Bay City, and city...
Governor Granholm signed legislation that creates Centers of Energy Excellence, a program designed to bring companies, academic institutions, and the State...
The Associated Press ELKTON, Mich. (AP) — Wind turbines built last year near Elkton in Huron County have been generating tourist traffic as well as ...
Wind power is NOT intermittent, it is variable. While this may seem like a matter of semantics, it is important to realize why the difference is significant....
Michigan State University Knight Center for Environmental Journalism students this summer decided to create a significant great lakes wind presences on the...
