Comments on: Winds of Change? http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/winds-of-change/ All Michigan, All the Time Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:31:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Absolute Michigan http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/winds-of-change/#comment-39221 Absolute Michigan Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:42:30 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/?p=1550#comment-39221 Granholm in Muskegon to help launch wind-turbine business

With Gov. Jennifer Granholm at his side, a forward-thinking West Michigan business leader inaugurated a next-generation alternative energy business Monday with a small wind turbine that sits atop the Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Muskegon.

Granholm touted the Swift Wind Turbine — developed by Cascade Engineering and President Fred Keller in conjunction with Renewable Devices of Edinburgh, Scotland — as one of the alternative energy products produced in Michigan that will become the state’s economic future.

Keller introduced the Swift turbines at national product launch in the Frauenthal Center.

Continue reading: The Muskegon Chronicle

]]> By: Absolute Michigan http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/winds-of-change/#comment-39202 Absolute Michigan Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:07:36 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/?p=1550#comment-39202 Capital Gains Radio: Grabbing the Great Lakes Wind

Michigan State University’s Land Policy Institute has put together a report on the prospect of offshore wind turbines on the Great Lakes.

Michigan Now’s Chris McCarus talks with the Land Policy Institute’s Soji Adelaja about the possibilities and challenges associated with powering 80 million homes with offshore, Great Lakes-based wind turbines.

Listen: Lansing Area Capital Gains

]]> By: Absolute Michigan http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/winds-of-change/#comment-39037 Absolute Michigan Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:03:09 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/?p=1550#comment-39037 Study: Wind turbines could up state energy 10-fold

Michigan could produce more than 10 times the amount of current peak electricity if nearly 100,000 offshore wind turbines operated along the Great Lakes, according to a new study.

The Michigan State University study, released Wednesday, said offshore winds could produce 320,000 megawatts of energy.

Continue reading: mlive.com

]]> By: David Waymire http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/winds-of-change/#comment-39035 David Waymire Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:48:17 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/?p=1550#comment-39035 I work with a group called the Customer Choice Coalition, which led the unsuccessful fight to use competitive powers to bring more renewable energy to Michigan. Unfortunately, lawmakers passed SB 213 (and Gov. Granholm seems ready to sign it) which will mean LESS renewable power, because it hands all of Michigan’s electric system to our two major utilities, who would rather build new coal and nuke plants. The bill prevents entrpeneurs from building new windmills and providing power to the electric system. Instead, the utilities will have the ability to control 100 percent of all new wind power. And they convinced lawmakers they shouldn’t have to bring new renewable power on line until 2013. They will make it expensive, and try to convince people to instead give them billions for bad old coal and nukes. Bad public policy. Write the governor. Tell her to veto SB 213 — which the American Wind Energy Association has said is the worse RPS legislation in the nation. Visit http://www.stopthemonopoly.com for more facts and less rhetoric.

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