Tag: michigan

  • Company to Burn Biomass in Escanaba, Michigan Coal-Fired Plant

    – by Jenny Lancour, April 3, 2015, Escanaba Daily Press Anyone wanting to express comments on a company’s recent proposal to buy Escanaba’s power plant can attend a public hearing next week at city hall, according to city officials. A public hearing on a purchase proposal submitted by Sterling Energy Group, Inc. will be held during…

  • New Biomass Power Facility on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula?

    – Sam Ali, January 8, 2015, ABC 10 The Keweenaw Renewable Energy Coalition is one step closer to helping bring a solution to the energy crisis in the Copper Country. Last night, KREC gathered experts in the logging and timber industries for a biomass working session to discuss the future of a possible 11-megawatt biomass electric…

  • 2014 Farm Bill Logs National Forests for Bioenergy

    – December 17, 2014, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that more than 200,000 tons of biomass were removed from federal lands through the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP). BCAP, reauthorized by the 2014 Farm Bill, provided incentives for the removal of dead or diseased trees from National Forests and Bureau of…

  • USDA Funds Genetic Engineering Research for Switchgrass Biofuels

    –  July 24, 2014, Farmers’ Advance Michigan State University (MSU) plant biologist C. Robin Buell has been awarded $1 million from a joint U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) program to accelerate genetic breeding programs to improve plant feedstock for the production of biofuels, bio-power and bio-based products. Specifically, the MSU College…

  • Hazardous Waste is Not Clean, Renewable Energy

    – by Lisa Wozniak, June 2, 2014, Lansing News People in politics tell a lot of “success” stories, but one that can be substantiated is the rise of clean, renewable energy in Michigan. Thanks to a law passed with bipartisan support in 2008, Michigan has been challenged to generate 10 percent of its energy from renewable…

  • Trees Are Not the Solution to Our Electricity Needs

    – by Marvin Roberson, April 27, 2014. Source: Detroit Free Press There is a lot of concern in Michigan, especially the Upper Peninsula, about meeting future electrical needs. Many aging, polluting coal plants are soon to go offline, as they should. New coal plants are unlikely to replace them, and would be a poor choice even…