Great Lakes Echo (https://greatlakesecho.org/category/energy/page/15/)
These stories are about traditional and alternative energy sources and challenges.
This week, Jeff Kart discusses support for Proposal 1, a new program that provides grant money for Saginaw Bay and a website that provides information on permitting for solar power.
Birds stand to gain valuable grassland habitat if the appetite to balance conservation and biofuel production continues gaining support in scientific circles.
Environmental group says pipeline never underwent adequate environmental review.
A judge ruled that Richard Brilinski waited to long to sue an energy company that may have drilled a natural gas well too close to his property line, and will now no longer be able to.
The value prairie grasses bring to bees helps make such plants more attractive for biofuels production.
Thanks to wind power, Michigan is on track to meet its renewable energy goals, but issues of transparency and turbine placement have some doubting this new shift toward wind.
A new report from the University of Michigan’s Energy Institute looks at the costs and benefits of expanding renewable energy in Michigan.
Michigan could expand its reusable energy standard to 25 percent over 10 years at $2.60 each month per household, a price that could be cut in half if key federal tax credits are extended.
The plan also achieves long-term goals of reliability and eliminating out-state utilities from the state’s energy future.
Experts say Michigan is far behind states on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in exploring innovative markets and uses for wood products and wood energy.