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	<title>Varnum Blogs, Michigan Alternative Energy Law, Water Law, Agriculture Law in Michigan &#187; MPSC groundrules for RPS</title>
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		<title>Order Amends Renewable Energy Plan for Consumers Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 06:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer In its Case No. U-16543 Order dated May 10, the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) responded to the request of Consumers Energy Company to amend its Act 295 Renewable Energy Plan (REP).  The MPSC’s rejected the company’s “lowest cost resource” strategy in favor of a “diversity of energy generation sources” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Can’t Michigan Be More Like Ontario?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman Alternative energy developers in Michigan have suggested to me that Michigan would go a long ways toward boosting its alternative energy manufacturing sector if it took lessons from Ontario. Specifically, they point to the domestic content requirements in Ontario’s Clean Energy Act that will ensure at least 25% of wind project costs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Devil is in the Details, so it is Time to Comment on the MPSC Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 12:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman Michigan’s 2008 legislation requiring utilities to purchase energy from and/or to construct renewable energy projects was a drawn out battle with many compromises and a mixed outcome. The MPSC has now proposed implementing rules, and the alternative energy industry needs to pay attention. Rules can never be perfect “right out of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MPSC Establishes Rules of the RPS Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman   In a series of orders, the Michigan Public Service Commission has approved the ground rules by which public utilities in the state will be implementing the RPS mandated by statute in 2008. Except for the competitive bid process for Detroit Edison, renewable energy plans, energy optimization plans, and surcharges were approved [...]]]></description>
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