Tag: Michigan

October 25, 2022

DTE Energy and 7-Eleven have announced the retailer’s enrollment in MIGreenPower, DTE’s voluntary renewable energy program. The enrollment will enable the brand to achieve 100% renewable energy for all 160 of its southeast Michigan locations for 20 years beginning in […]

September 9, 2022

All over the country, utilities and their customers who want to use rooftop solar have collided over the issue of what kind of payments are fair for the electricity exported to the grid by distributed solar panels. Nowhere is that […]

April 30, 2021

There are 2,600 megawatts of solar power capacity installed in the U.S. today that can be considered community solar, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). That is a little less than 5% of all […]

July 21, 2020

BJ’s Wholesale Club, a leading warehouse club operator in the Eastern United States, will open at the end of this month its newest BJ’s Gas location in Chesterfield, Michigan. The new BJ’s Gas station in Chesterfield marks the 147th location […]

August 12, 2019

A dispute holding up a solar project backlog of nearly 600MW in Michigan is now one step closer to resolution, under a truce brokered with the help of industry representatives. Last Friday, US solar body SEIA urged the Michigan Public […]

June 10, 2019

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan regulators on Friday approved a major utility’s plan to phase out its coal-fired power plants and rely increasingly on renewable sources and energy efficiency to provide electricity. Jackson-based Consumers Energy, which supplies power to much […]

April 22, 2019

Citing planning delays, a global renewable energy developer has canceled plans for a major wind project in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. A local referendum on the project is scheduled for May 7, though it is not clear whether that impacted developers’ […]

February 22, 2019

Ford Motor Company is collaborating with DTE Energy to procure 500,000 megawatt hours of wind energy in Michigan. The automaker says the deal should help power two plants and several additional buildings with 100% renewable locally sourced energy. The collaboration […]

February 13, 2017

Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corp., a subsidiary of WEC Energy Group, submitted plans to build two gas generating stations totaling 183 MW in the upper peninsula of Michigan. The plans are now under review by the Michigan Public Service Commission. […]

April 22, 2016

Consumers Energy’s 1.8 million electricity customers across the state of Michigan will see their rates drop by $38 million as a result of the utility’s shutdown on April 15 of its Classic Seven oldest coal-fired generating plants. According to the […]

March 23, 2016

Consumers Energy says it’s on track to close its seven oldest Michigan coal-fired power plants this spring. Read More on Penn Energy

February 3, 2016

Consumers Energy awarded commemorative signs to 33 Michigan Centennial and Sesquicentennial Farms in 2015, recognizing them as being working farms owned by the same families for 100 and 150 years. “We are honored to help recognize the work of these […]