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		<title>Does/Will/Can Michigan have an Energy Policy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman  What does it take for a state (that is not California) to have an energy policy?  The question is timely because elections are approaching and one would hope the candidates would address all the important issues.  But will anyone take a public stand on unresolved energy issues: increasing the renewable portfolio standard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Either at the Table or on the Menu &#8211; MPSC Hearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:02:12 +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 The Michigan Public Service Commission has announced it will hold a public hearing at 9 a.m. on June 22 for its proposed rules governing renewable energy plans and energy optimization plans. These rules may well set the tone and the future for energy projects in Michigan for the next decade.  Provisions include [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Watt's New? Michigan Energy News]]></category>
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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>Capturing Waste Heat to Produce Electricity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 00:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Watt's New? Michigan Energy News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[backup capacity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman Pro Renewables of Portage, Michigan plans to make it possible for industry to use wasted energy to produce its own electricity. As the Midwest distributor of the 50 kW Green Machine produced by ElectraTherm Inc., the company will be selling and installing the equipment which can capture heat normally wasted in manufacturing and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Address Standby Rates Now (Or Greatly Expand True Net Metering)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Watt's New? Michigan Energy News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[biomass]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman New forms of distributed energy are one of the promises of renewable energy. There can be many smaller, even very small, electric generating stations dispersed throughout Michigan producing energy from local resources. It is the energy equivalent of buying local, and does not require transmission grid upgrades. But utility-imposed standby rates stand as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Roadblocks Resurfacing</title>
		<link>http://www.varnumblogs.com/energy/2009/old-roadblocks-resurfacing/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=old-roadblocks-resurfacing</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Watt's New? Michigan Energy News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[avoided cost]]></category>
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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>Is all electricity created equal?  MW vs. MWh</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Watt's New? Michigan Energy News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baseload capacity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capacity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capacity portfolio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coal burning power plants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman There is a disconnect in the public discourse on electric generation in Michigan.  It revolves around the confusion caused by such terms as “capacity”, “availability”, “energy”, “reliability”,  “intermittent”, “firm”, “spot market”, “backup”, “baseload”, “efficiency” and other energy jargon.  Energy policy cannot afford loose talk or loose thinking. The call for energy efficiency [...]]]></description>
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