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  • 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 the…

  • 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 sources…

  • 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 if…