LANSING – Michigan utilities have to provide 10 percent of their power from renewable sources in 2015, and, at their current rate of adopting renewable power, the state’s utilities should be able to hit that target, the Public Service Commission announced Tuesday.
The report showed Detroit Edison has 44 megawatts of renewable power already in production and 208 more scheduled to be online by the end of the year. Consumers Energy has 8 MW now and 388 MW more that will be online by 2013.
The contracts in place provided 4.7 percent of Consumers’ generation and 2.49 percent of Edison’s generation in 2009, the report said of the state’s two largest utilities.
Overall, the state saw 3.63 percent of its power from renewables in 2009, up from 2.9 percent in 2007.
Among the investor-owned utilities, Edison Sault Electric Company had the most at 35.2 percent.
Several of the municipal utilities showed more than 100 percent of their power from renewables because they had purchased credits totaling more than their power output for the year.
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