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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Watt's New? Michigan Energy News]]></category>
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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>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Watt's New? Michigan Energy News]]></category>
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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>Pioneering Technology to be Used at Cellulosic Biobutanol Refinery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Watt's New? Michigan Energy News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biobutanol]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer  Cobalt Technologies and American Process Inc. have agreed to build the world’s first industrial-scale cellulosic biorefinery to produce biobutanol in Alpena.  The continuous fermentation and distillation technology will convert cellulosic biomass feedstock into fermentable sugars that will be used to produce ethanol and biobutanol.  The biobutanol can be used &#8220;as [...]]]></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>If I Ruled the World (or maybe just the State)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Battery Currents - Advanced Energy Storage Systems News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer Five elements to include in an energy policy for Michigan: BIOMASS ENERGY: Make use of the energy in biomass that is going to waste in this state. The BTU content of the “unused biomass” in the state of Michigan is enormous.  ENERGY EFFICIENCY/CONSERVATION: Make better use of our existing energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community Energy Plan for Holland</title>
		<link>http://www.varnumblogs.com/energy/2011/community-energy-plan-for-holland/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=community-energy-plan-for-holland</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer Garforth International and a team of city employees recently presented a Community Energy Plan to a town hall meeting in Holland. The plan provided national and world-wide background information on energy issues, and suggested a course of action for the City of Holland leading up to its bicentennial in 2047. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Michigan as Energy Hub</title>
		<link>http://www.varnumblogs.com/energy/2011/west-michigan-as-energy-hub/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=west-michigan-as-energy-hub</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer Veolia Energy intends on using its investment in the Grand Rapids steam loop as a platform for other energy projects in the Great Lakes. It already monitors and manages a landfill gas project in Wisconsin from its downtown Grand Rapids control room. Now the company is pursuing coal or gasified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Senate Hearing to Evaluate RPS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer   State Senator Mike Nofs has commenced Energy and Technology Committee hearings on Public Act 295 of 2008. This statute, The Clean, Renewable, and Efficient Energy Act, set the renewable portfolio standard for Michigan at 10 percent by 2015. On October 4 testimony was presented by Consumers Energy, DSF Corporation, Michigan [...]]]></description>
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