LANSING - The Michigan Saves Home Energy Loan Program is now available statewide, officials announced Tuesday. The program, created with a grant through the Low-Income and Energy Efficiency Fund, provides low-interest loans to cover the cost of energy efficiency improvements. Genisys Credit Union, U.P. State Credit Union and Greater Niles Community Federal Credit Union allowed
MANISTEE ? Duke Energy filed a proposal last week with DTE Energy to develop a $360 million wind power project in Benzie and Manistee counties that could generate up to 200 megawatts of renewable electricity to power about 60,000 homes. The project could eventually cover up to 16,000 acres. The proposed wind farm, the Gail
DETROIT - The advanced lighting industry could be the poster child for Michigan's transformation to sustainability in energy production, conservation, and job creation. Imagine all the jobs that spin-off from any new industry. It's not just the engineering and manufacturing, but component assembly, testing, and training the work force to install or retrofit these new
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems has been named a recipient of Corp! Magazine's inaugural Excellence in Digital, Science & Technology Business awards for 2011. Companies based in Southeast Michigan are chosen for the annual awards based upon a track record of innovation and excellence in conducting business that leverages effective and advanced technology. Award recipients
LANSING - Saying Michigan has not faced up to the financial necessity of fixing its overall budget and tax structure, Governor Rick Snyder unveiled the most sweeping overall changes to the state's fiscal and revenue structure in decades. The measures proposed to the more than $46 billion budget were hard and would be difficult to
LANSING - Michigan residents would play a greater role in financing the operations of the state, while businesses would pay significantly less under the tax proposals made Thursday by Governor Rick Snyder. And recognizing the political difficulty of approving the different proposals, Snyder is attempting a novel effort at forcing lawmakers to either take the
GRAND RAPIDS - Technologist Keith Brophy, for the twelfth year in a row, presented his tech trends for the coming years - a collection of predictions this year that highlighted alternative energy, social networking, smart electric meters, health care, and auto tuners. Speaking before about 100 people packed into the restored Wealthy Theater, Brophy, a
LANSING - The Small Business Association of Michigan announced that David Jessup has been named the association's Director of Government Relations. Jessup will assist Vice President Government Relations David Palsrok in administering the association's government relations activities. Before joining the staff of the Small Business Association of Michigan, Jessup was the Government Relations Director at
SAN FRANCISCO - In a digital heist reminiscent of a John le Carre novel, more than $9 million worth of greenhouse-gas emissions permits were stolen from the Czech Republic electricity and carbon trading registry earlier this month and transferred to accounts in other countries, at the same time as the Prague-based registry office was evacuated
TRAVERSE CITY - Appia Communications has landed on Nine Lives Media's fourth-annual MSPmentor 100, a research report identifying the world's top 100 managed service providers. This year's MSPmentor 100 report includes MSPs from North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Australia. "We are again honored to appear on the MSP100," said Victor von Schlegell,