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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Watt's New? Michigan Energy News]]></category>
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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>
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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>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>Should the Governor Go Beyond Fuel Taxes to an Overall Carbon Tax?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer It is being reported that Governor Snyder intends on seeking a change in the transportation fuels taxing structure, shifting the application of the tax from the retail to the wholesale level. If true, is it time to consider a more general fossil fuel carbon tax? It has long been recognized [...]]]></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>Growing Solar Market One Rooftop at a Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer In October the Dow Chemical Company introduced its PowerHouse™ Solar Shingle in Colorado, with sales in twelve other states to follow in 2012. D.R. Horton Inc., the largest homebuilder in the U.S. with operations in 26 states, is committing to install the building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) product on 50 new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Potential for Solar Optical Battery</title>
		<link>http://www.varnumblogs.com/energy/2011/potential-for-solar-optical-battery/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=potential-for-solar-optical-battery</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:23:37 +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 Varnum&#8217;s Battery Law Industry Group Building on research that has found a way to amplify the magnetic effect of light waves millions of times, researchers at The University of Michigan hope to generate electricity from sunlight without semiconductors or photovoltaic panels. The researchers call the charge separation phenomenon an “optical battery.”  The Department of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attracting Asian Energy Industries to Michigan</title>
		<link>http://www.varnumblogs.com/energy/2011/attracting-asian-energy-industries-to-michigan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=attracting-asian-energy-industries-to-michigan</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer  Governor Snyder’s recent trade mission to Asia had an alternative energy flavor. Saginaw Future President JoAnn T. Crary went to attract Chinese solar supply chain investors to locate near Hemlock Semiconductor. [In October ground will be broken on a renewable energy park in Thomas Township to be “shovel-ready” for new [...]]]></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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