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Energy experts say Michigan can make its energy infrastructure more reliable against the effects of climate change by increasing the state’s energy storage capabilities and improving technologies that detect power outages.
Solar supporters want to remove cap on how much juice they sell to utilities. But utilities say what they cannot recover the true cost of that energy.
The Environmental Insight Explorer collects a city’s potential solar output, carbon emissions and long term climate outlook.
But solar companies are leasing more land anyway as solar becomes more profitable and equipment costs decline.
About 40 people testified last week at a public hearing on a potential offshore wind farm in Lake Erie.
DTE Energy, a major supplier of electricity to Southeast Michigan, plans to double its renewable energy capacity by 2021.
Some farmers are finding that leasing their land for solar power is more profitable than growing crops.
The locale of a pioneering hydropower project near one of North America’s iconic natural wonders is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
Michigan communities like Grand Rapids, Traverse City and Northport are moving towards being powered by clean energy.
Some believe rural communities already have plenty of wind generators.