LANSING - It is essential to Michigan's environment to reduce the amount of mercury being released into it, so electric utilities, particularly DTE, should drop a challenge to new federal standards, environmental groups said in a teleconference Thursday. But DTE executives said DTE cannot drop the lawsuit because it is only indirectly a party and
DETROIT - NextEnergy Energy Storage Event Oct. 30 provides an informal, neutral setting with key players in the advanced energy storage systems sector, learn about start-stop systems forecasts from a leading market analyst, and hear from two industry leaders on important matters related to ES systems. The event is free, Includes access to PlugVolt webinar,
GRAND RAPIDS - For researchers, chemists, engineers, industry CEOs, students, educators, entrepreneurs, and policymakers, the 2013 Michigan Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference Oct. 23-24 provides an excellent opportunity to hear and share ideas on how we can best "green up" Michigan through green chemistry and engineering. Conference attendees will learn how green chemistry and engineering
LANSING - The Public Service Commission released the second of four draft reports Tuesday on renewable energy before Governor Rick Snyder's recommendations on the state's energy future, expected in December. The report consists of miscellaneous energy questions that were not classified specifically to renewable energy, energy efficiency or electric choice. The questions include electric liability,
GRAND RAPIDS ? The West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum is hosting a luncheon program on cause marketing and social purpose October 14 at Amway Corporate Headquarters. Featured speakers include Samuel Shiroff, Vice President Business + Social Responsibility for Edelman, and Debra Kalmbach, Manager of Global Corporate Citizenship at Amway. For more than two decades, Edelman
COPEMISH ? Contractors Building Supply, which has been a provider of energy efficient windows and wind turbines for years, now has gone into the solar-panel business in a big way. On Oct. 3 CBS will host a ribbon cutting on its 15,000 square foot manufacturing plant in this Northwest Michigan community that will assemble solar
LANSING ? The Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council said a draft report released last week by the state showed that Michigan could boost its Renewable Portfolio Standard without sacrificing electric reliability. Current law calls for all electric utilities in the state must generate 10 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2015. Mi-EIBC praised
NOVI ? Thousands of attendees and hundreds of exhibitors packed the Suburban Showcase this week for the Battery Show, which this year added the Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo. The show, which began life four years ago in California, was moved to Michigan because of the state?s strong engineering community, said Marketing Manager Blanca
ANN ARBOR - Meadowlark Energy and Neighborhood Roofing are partnering to install a local home?s new roof with a unique solar shingle developed by Dow Solar in Midland. The owners of the home, located in Ann Arbor?s Old West Side neighborhood, were pioneers of solar in the late ?70?s, and badly needed a new roof.
ANN ARBOR - The Downtown Development Authority, after installing 18 electric vehicle charging stations in downtown Ann Arbor 18 months ago, is now looking at adding more. Dave Konkle, the DDA?s energy programs director, told Ann Arbor.Com that the stations are getting roughly 80 percent use each day. Because the 18 charging stations were funded