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Michigan’s Clean Energy Economic Comeback: How Local Economies in Michigan Are Benefitting from State and Federal Climate Policies

UncategorizedBy Julielyn Gibbons September 6, 2024

Michigan’s Clean Energy Economic Comeback: How Local Economies in Michigan Are Benefitting from State and Federal Climate Policies Analysis by 5 Lakes Energy The state of Michigan is experiencing an economic resurgence, powered by the Biden-Harris administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Michigan now ranks among the top five for new clean energy projects and jobs,…

Integrating Batteries into Resource Planning: A Presentation by Douglas Jester, 5 Lakes Energy

UncategorizedBy Julielyn Gibbons March 26, 2024

20220413 Jester Technical Workshop Presentation Presented by Douglas Jester, Managing Partner, 5 Lakes Energy

MLive: 5 Lakes Energy Study Released; Examines the City of Ann Arbor’s Pathways to 100% Renewable Power

UncategorizedBy Admin September 27, 2023

A new study by 5 Lakes Energy, which was commissioned by the city of Ann Arbor, examines options for the city to transition to 100% renewable energy for its electricity use by 2030. The study assesses the feasibility of shifting to a municipal utility, as well as the costs and benefits of creating a new…

Detroit Metro Times: Governor Whitmer Cites Michigan Clean Energy Framework in “What’s Next” Address

UncategorizedBy Admin September 1, 2023

In her “what’s next” address, Gov. Whitmer cited findings from The Michigan Clean Energy Framework, which forecasted the major economic, public health, and other benefits that would result from Michgian adopting a comprehensive suite of state-level clean energy policies (Detroit Free Press, Sept. 1, 2023). Co-authored by 5 Lakes Energy and the Michigan Energy Innovation…

New Report from Citizens Utility Board: Electric Utility Performance – Ranking Michigan Amongst the States (2019)

Blog, Insights, Publications, UncategorizedBy Douglas Jester July 19, 2019

There’s a new report out from the Citizens Utility Board of Michigan, prepared by 5 Lakes Energy LLC, that provides a scorecard measuring the aggregate performance of Michigan’s electric utilities in the areas of reliability, affordability and management of environmental impacts in comparison to the aggregate performance of the other 49 states and the District of…

Guest Blog: Utility-Owned Combined Heat & Power (CHP) Highlighted in DTE Rate Case

Blog, Insights, UncategorizedBy Douglas Jester May 14, 2019

By Jamie Scripps, Hunterston Consulting LLC Jamie Scripps is a principal with Hunterston Consulting LLC, where she offers advanced energy policy expertise to clients across the Midwest, with a focus on Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Jamie’s standby rate research has been featured in proceedings throughout the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, and she is a…

Michigan energy policy package contains important provisions for combined heat and power (CHP)

Blog, Insights, UncategorizedBy Admin December 19, 2016

This post was originally published by the Great Plains Institute at: http://www.betterenergy.org/MI_CHP After nearly two years of hearings, countless substitute bills, and intense negotiations the Michigan legislature finally approved two pieces of legislation that overhaul and update Michigan’s energy policy. Much has already been written about the larger elements of the legislation – increasing the renewable…

Scripps of 5 Lakes Energy named to Midwest Energy News ’40 under 40′ list for 2016

Blog, Press, UncategorizedBy Admin September 30, 2016

Jamie Scripps of 5 Lakes Energy has been recognized by Midwest Energy News as one of its 2016 ‘40 under 40’ emerging leaders who are working to transition America to a clean energy economy. Jamie was nominated for her advocacy on behalf of industrial energy efficiency and cogeneration, her research and analysis on sustainability, and…

Other hidden costs of Line 5

Blog, Insights, UncategorizedBy Admin August 17, 2016

You wouldn’t site, and you wouldn’t build and construct pipelines underneath the Straits today.” Attorney General Bill Schuette [Begging the question: If a state-of-the-art, 21st Century pipeline presents an unacceptable risk, why is the continued use of an aging, mid-20th Century pipeline acceptable?] Many compelling reasons exist to terminate the use of Line 5, the…

Energy & Climate Notes 072116

Blog, Insights, UncategorizedBy Admin July 24, 2016

2016 Platforms: “We will enforce the original intent of the Clean Water Act, not it’s distortion by EPA regulations. We will likewise forbid the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide” Republican Platform 2016 The Republican platform largely denies the existence of climate change, expressly rejects the Paris Climate Agreement and the Kyoto Protocol, and calls for…