(MI) The Detroit News – Two out-of-state renewable energy firms have selected Ford’s shuttered Wixom plant for an ambitious $725 million redevelopment project, creating what officials are calling the nation’s largest renewable energy park, company officials said Thursday.
The companies, Xtreme Power of Austin, Texas, and Clairvoyant Energy of Santa Barbara, Calif., plan to retool the aging factory, which once built such icons as the Lincoln Town Car and Ford Thunderbird, to manufacture solar panels and utility-scale batteries used for generating renewable power. More