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		<title>fortu PowerCell&#8217;s Delayed Entry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Varnum&#8217;s Battery Law Industry Group Construction on the fortu PowerCell advanced energy storage manufacturing plant in Muskegon Township has been delayed two years.  Construction will start no sooner than this summer due to European financial uncertainty, and battery production will not start until at least early 2014.  The venture&#8217;s new CEO Albert Esser will direct the scale up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Activity in Saginaw Bay Area</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer Suniva Inc. is looking for acceptable financing and favorable market conditions before committing to a 2013 start-up of its $250 million solar cell manufacturing facility in Thomas Township. To assist with financing, in December the Michigan Economic Development Authority authorized an $8.7 million tax credit and renewed a previously granted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ballot Initiative on Alternative Energy Planned</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer A coalition of groups and companies is seeking to place a constitutional amendment before voters on November 3, 2012 to set Michigan’s energy policy. The proposed ballot language would require that by 2025 at least 25 percent of each electricity provider’s annual retail electricity sales be derived from clean renewable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Things Come to Those Who Wait?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Watt's New? Michigan Energy News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer In May 2011, in front of 40 of Michigan’s top leaders in clean energy manufacturing, Governor Snyder presented the first Reinventing Michigan Award to Energetx Composites. Having waited impatiently for four months, this group of entrepreneurs (ready to unleash their economic gardening skills, resources, and innovation) asked the Governor for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Bio-economy Research Center at MSU</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer  With an initial goal of developing cost effective, off-the-shelf anaerobic digestion technology for small and medium-sized farms, Michigan State University has established its Anaerobic Digester Research and Education Center. The Center brings together resources that were spread across four laboratories on the East Lansing campus. There are already 150 manure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electric Trucks to Use A123 Batteries</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Varnum&#8217;s Battery Law Industry Group A123 Systems  has a new contract with Via Motors, a company that specializes in converting standard vehicles to hybrids.  A123 Systems will provide lithium-ion batteries for the world’s first extended range electric/hybrid trucks, available for consumers in 2013.  The trucks, which are estimated to travel 30-40 miles per charge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demo Energy Crops Planted in Midland</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Growing Michigan - Michigan Agriculture News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer  Dow Corning Corporation will soon have a bio-mass energy facility built at its Midland location which will  supply steam and up to 40 MW of electricity.  To be owned and operated by Midland Power Station, formerly Cirque Energy, the electricity and steam will be generated through the gasification of such feedstock [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mascoma to Raise More Money in IPO?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer Mascoma Corporation, yet to break ground on its Kinross, Michigan non-food cellulosic ethanol facility, plans to raise up to $100 Million in an initial public offering (IPO) of stock.  The company has developed technology and genetically modified yeast with the potential to cut the cost of breaking down cellulose and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Center Planned for Site TBD on Muskegon Lake</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer Two West Michigan companies, L3 Combat Propulsion Systems of Muskegon and Rockford Bergé of Grand Rapids, have organized the Michigan Wind Energy Consortium. With the support of other local companies, they intend to take advantage of Muskegon’s deep-water port capacity and the area’s manufacturing capabilities to build parts for wind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coal Plant(s) Off the Table</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer Consumers Energy has canceled the $2.3 billion 830 MW supercritical coal-fired power plant for which it had successfully obtained an air permit in late 2009. The recession and slow economic recovery which have reduced customer demand, a surplus in Midwest generating capacity, and low natural gas prices, were all given [...]]]></description>
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