DETROIT ? NextEnergy announced Tuesday that Kenneth Lundberg has joined the alternative energy group as vice president, finance and administration and chief financial officer. Lundberg?s key responsibilities will be to manage approval and maintenance of accounting systems; maintain relationships with financial institutions, and control banking operations, investment portfolio and related activities; manage insurance coverage; and
ANN ARBOR ? February's Michigan Energy Forum event, Financing Your Commercial Energy Project, will focus on highlighting an array of financial mechanisms that exist to help commercial building owners make their energy efficiency and/or renewable energy project a reality. Event Details: SPARK Central, 330 East Liberty, Ann Arbor Date: 2/2/2012 Time: 5 - 7 PM
WHITMORE LAKE ? RheTech has expanded its RheVision biocomposites product line to include agave fiber and coconut fiber. These new biofibers, including RheVision's existing offering of wood fiber, rice hull and flax fiber reinforced polyolefin, are helping RheTech meet the growing demand for environmentally friendly materials that meet the performance characteristics of its customers. ?We
LANSING ? The Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced Thursday that the City of Detroit has won a $400,000 Advanced Lighting Technology Demonstration grant to upgrade street lights in six areas of the city. ?The State of Michigan is pleased to partner with the City of Detroit and DTE Energy to replace aging and inefficient lighting
LANSING - Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been linked to a variety of environmental problems around the country, but industry officials said a combination of the state's geography and its regulations would prevent those incidents in Michigan. Though the issue has become a hot button for environmentalists in recent months, Michigan has had wells that
OAK PARK - Azure Dynamics Corp. announced that it has delivered its 1,000th Balance Hybrid Electric Truck to Purolator, Azure's largest customer. This unit also represents Purolator's 200th Hybrid Electric truck received in 2011, which is part of its previous record 600 unit order providing for 200 units being delivered in 2011 with an additional
LANSING - Increasing Michigan's portfolio standard is the goal of a constitutional amendment submitted this week with the Department of State. A group calling itself Michigan Energy, Michigan Jobs is backing adoption by voters of a 25 percent RPS standard by 2025, meaning utilities would have to generate 25 percent of their electricity from renewable
LANSING - While Michigan House Republicans are confident they have found a long-term solution for the funding of heating assistance for the poor, the funding of energy efficiency projects that used to come out of the same pot of money will be much different. The plan that Rep. Kenneth Horn (R-Frankenmuth) came up with after
LANSING - Detroit's Cobo Center has earned Green Venues Michigan Steward certification from the Michigan Energy Office, which encourages venues to implement environmental initiatives and cost-saving "green" practices. ?Cost-saving green business practices have been extremely positive for job creation and retention in the hospitality sector,? said Martin Dober, vice president of new markets of the
DETROIT ? The latest news on the Chevrolet Volt is that General Motors is going to change battery suppliers. GM had been buying lithium-metal-oxide batteries from LG Chem. Now it will switch to lithium-phosphate batteries from A123. The lithium-phosphate batteries are less likely to catch fire if damaged, but they hold about 10 percent less