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	<title>Varnum Blogs, Michigan Alternative Energy Law, Water Law, Agriculture Law in Michigan &#187; PURPA</title>
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		<title>President Gerald R. Ford had an Energy Vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer On his last day in office, January 19, 1977, President Gerald Ford issued a clarion call on energy:  &#8220;America cannot permit the excessive delays associated with the commercialization of unconventional energy technologies.  New production is essential.  Our national security and economic well-being depend on our ability to act decisively on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Distributed Energy Needs: Better Net Metering; Lower Standby Rates; and Self-Service Wheeling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:35:46 +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 One of the real opportunities for energy security and emission reductions is distributed energy. That hundreds, even thousands of smaller electric generating projects (solar, geothermal, wind, combined heat and power, cogeneration) could supply a large portion of the nation’s energy needs is no longer a pipedream. Although it may cut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waste to Energy Plant Operating Again in Detroit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer  The 24-year old refuse derived fuel energy plant in Detroit has reopened under new ownership. Detroit Renewable Power LLC has invested $50 million in improvements, and is back processing up to 3,300 tons of municipal solid waste per day. The facility provides steam to Detroit Thermal LLC’s district heating system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan Needs to Get Hip on Energy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman Earlier this month, I had total replacement surgery on my right hip. Nagging pains that started ten years ago gradually developed into stronger, sharper pains, causing me to walk off-kilter. I knew it was time for corrective action and thanks to my skilled surgeon, I now look forward to a future free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Roadblocks Resurfacing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman For many who have been in the energy practice since the PURPA days it seems like history is repeating itself. The Public Utilities Policy Act of 1978 had as its laudable goal the encouragement of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Small power production (renewable) projects and cogeneration (energy efficiency) projects were intended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Does an Interrobang Add to the Energy Discussion&#x203D;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman This month I rediscovered the interrobang (‽), first introduced in 1962. Intended to be used when a sentence is both a question and an excited exclamation, it never caught on. Writers and editors have been satisfied with ?!?! It strikes me that alternative energy is the epitome of the interrobang&#8212;both an exciting [...]]]></description>
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