Manufacturers, installers say expansion would spur state economy
Keep Politics Out of Traverse City’s Clean Energy Future
“Don’t toss the baby out with the bathwater.”
Sun Is Shining on Michigan’s Solar Industry
The Solar Foundation, a Washington D.C.-based non-profit, reports that Michigan is now fourth in the nation for job creation in the solar industry.
The Big U.P. Deal
The Nature Conservancy and the State of Michigan said this week that new conservation easements and acquisitions would protect 271,000 acres of wilderness and natural area, including the Fox and Big Two-Hearted Rivers.
Utilities, State Plug Fast Car-Charger Incentives
But if you’re driving one of those new, very cool electric vehicles, GM’s Volt, or Nissan’s Leaf, which will start rolling off assembly lines later this year, where will you “fill up” with electricity instead of gas?
TCL&P’s Good First Step
Traverse City Light and Power just took a step toward unleashing a powerful jobs and income machine: It installed a new “net metering” policy, allowing TCL&P’s customers to generate limited amounts of renewable energy and sell it back to the utility.