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The area around the Great Lakes offers an opportunity for renewable wind energy production. With offshore winds almost constantly blowing there are many areas in Michigan where wind energy projects can be successful. We cover a few stories here.
Michigan’s AG Dana Nessel is suing the Trump Administration over a federal freeze on wind energy projects, which jeopardizes clean energy goals, investment, and job growth, challenging legal limits on presidential power in energy policy.
Michigan lawmakers are moving to restore local control over renewable energy siting by reversing a 2023 mandate that allowed state oversight. House Bills 4027 and 4028 aim to return decision-making to townships and counties amid community concerns regarding energy costs and local governance.
DOE-backed initiatives highlight Michigan’s leadership in next-generation wind energy research, manufacturing, and environmental protection. Michigan Wind Energy Projects 2025 Drive Innovation and Sustainability Michigan is playing a growing role in America’s renewable energy push. According to the Department of Energy’s Wind …
Homeowners have a wide variety of choices to implement renewable energy systems during their next build or remodel.
This article will focus on the seven diverse renewable energy systems that homeowners can implement and use.
The folks at MidAmerican Energy put together this terrific video that shows the entire process of raising a wind turbine like those in Michigan’s Thumb. The video is a little over five minutes and includes factoids during the entire process.
ExxonMobil Chemical recently made an acquisition of a company whose technical advancement in polymers may result in making wind turbine blades stronger, will last longer, and offer sustainable practices.
it’s a now a matter of public record that the wind farm defendants in the Ubly case did unsuccessfully attempt to prevent the opinion of a local property assessment firm that showed that the plaintiffs suffered a reduction in property values approaching $1 million.
There is no question that technologies such as wind turbines are less efficient than continuing to use fossil fuel. So why are we investing so much in renewable in terms of tax breaks and legislation? This video presents a non political outline of the situation that planet finds itself in. It does not offer any solutions. This was first posted on Thumbwind in 2012. Three years later it resonates even more.
