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Arbor Brewing Company & Corner Brewery 114 E Washington St | Ann Arbor MI 48104 | 734-213-1393 | www.arborbrewing.com PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rene Greff  email: rgreff@arborbrewing.com Office: (734)340-6793   Mobile: (734)678-7620 MICHIGAN BREWERIES GOING SOLAR YPSILANTI, MI – ANN ARBOR: Local brewery owners Matt and Rene Greff are breaking new ground for Michigan breweries as solar …

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At 5 Lakes Energy, we are committed to helping Michigan chart a clean energy journey that takes advantage of Michigan’s inherent strengths.  Those strengths include an exceptional workforce, highly developed research university system, expansive community colleges, beautiful natural resources, advanced manufacturing expertise,  engineering know-how, and others.  Deploying more renewable energy here is critical to maintain …

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5 Lakes Energy is working with the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association (GLREA) to explore possibilities for aggregating small scale renewable RECs.  If you are an installer in Michigan or someone interested in combining your RECs into another sale in order to capture economies of scale, feel free to reach out to 5LE’s Lauren Knapp …

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by Skip Pruss We got a glimpse this month of Gov. Rick Snyder’s view of renewable energy in Michigan. Signaling likely opposition to the new proposed ballot initiative that would require 25% of Michigan’s electricity to be derived from renewable sources by 2025, the governor said during a visit to Port Huron that “Michigan is not …

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WHAT Join Michigan’s advanced energy innovators, entrepreneurs, manufacturers and more for the second quarterly meeting of the Energy Innovation Business Council. This day-long event will focus on ways that Michigan companies, national labs and universities can collaborate and use those collaborations to drive innovation, secure funding and grow opportunities. The agenda for the day includes: …

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Myth: “Amendment of the Michigan Constitution is an extraordinary action, rarely if ever, done.” Fact:  The Michigan Constitution has been mended many, many times.  Before the 1908 Michigan Constitution was rewritten entirely in 1963, it was amended 69 times.  Since our “new” Constitution was adopted in 1963, Michigan citizens have amended it 31 times.   …

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Michigan currently imports its energy from other states and countries, sending billions of dollars — and the jobs they create — out of Michigan. Our electricity comes from mainly coal (60%) that we import from other states.  The transportation alone of this coal from other parts of the country is a factor in our electricity …

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Join Michigan’s energy efficiency innovators, entrepreneurs, manufacturers and more in a lunchtime dialogue about how energy efficiency manufacturing is driving economic growth and creating jobs right here in Michigan. Learn more about Michigan companies manufacturing in the different segments of the energy efficiency market including sealants and caulking, building structures and control systems. Highlights include: …

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I attended the industry and academia day for the opening of the latest TARDEC laboratory GSPEL or Ground Vehicle Power and Electricity Laboratory.  The event on Thursday, April 12th allowed industry representatives into the new lab to see the testing capability that the Army now has in the GSPEL facility. Participants were taken on a …

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