News & Fun in Michigan
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.
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.
In what could be called a political masterstroke or an overzealous environmental crusade, depending on who you ask, last month, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer put pen to paper on a historic clean energy and climate action package. It’s big, it’s bold, …
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.
Consumers Energy announced Gratiot Wind Farm Project is operational and contributes 150 megawatts of renewable energy to Michigan customers. Gratiot Farms Wind Project went online on December 16 and featured 60 turbines with a 150-megawatt capacity, enough to power about 58,000 …
Wind project developer, Liberty Power, proposes a project to add more turbines to its portfolio in the Upper Thumb. The hearing will review the application and take comments from the public.
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.
