MASON ? The Michigan Energy Fair returns in June to the Mason County Fairgrounds where Co-Chair Allan O?Shea said in an interview this week that more emphasis will be placed on waking up the state to what?s happening in alternative energy.
This year, O?Shea said the Energy Fair has taken a different approach, dividing the state into five regions, each hosting independent meetings to make sure the slowly growing alternative energy sector represents all the state?s interests.
The result at the Energy Fair this year will be more working displays, workshops and speakers ? serving up something for everyone that wants to be more plugged into what the state is doing in alternative energy.
For most of the Energy Fair?s decade-long existence it was hosted in O?Shea?s backyard in Onekama at the Ingham County Fairgrounds, in Northwest Michigan. It was moved last year to Mason to be more accessible to a bigger potential audience that will be served up a more diverse sampling of solar, wind, hydro, and biomass, just to name a few.
?We?ll have a great effort expanding our children?s program,? O?Shea said. ?Parents will bring kids to the fair and we?ll give them projects to do so their parents can walk through the fair. We?ll have microbreweries talking about how they use solar systems. We?re working with the car companies to get electric vehicles there. There will be a lot going on.?
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