ANN ARBOR - Adaptive Materials, purchased last month by a United Kingdom-based company, said in a press release that it has repaid the $6.27 million awarded the company in 2007 from the Michigan 21st Century Jobs Fund to commercialize its portable fuel cells six years early. The award is the largest investment made to date
LANSING - Farmers are hailing legislation that would give them further legal protections for complying with the Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program, but environmental groups are arguing the legislation provides protections for large animal operations. Under the bills, SB 122 and SB 123 , reported from the Senate Agriculture Committee this week and HB 4212
LANSING - Future power plants will only have to show that they meet state and federal environmental standards, not that the plant is actually needed, Natural Resources and Environment Director Dan Wyant said Friday after issuing permits for a new plant in Holland. Wyant, in an interview with Gongwer News Service, said two courts had
ANN ARBOR - Six teams moved on to the semi-final round of judging in the Clean Energy Prize competition, which will be held Feb. 18. The surviving teams are pitching new, clean-energy business ideas that range from a new way to finance energy efficiency upgrades for municipal buildings to a new model for the biomass
DETROIT ? New Century Career Center will host its first class next week to teach a dozen entrepreneurs who have well drilling businesses how to tap into the geothermal heating and cooling industry. It?s just the first class of what school director and co founder Jeremy Eckhous hopes will be dozens of vocational-training classes to
DETROIT - DTE Energy's BudgetWise Billing program offers customers a great way to manage rising energy bills in the face of bitterly cold winter weather. With new and improved features to the program now available, eligible customers enrolled in the program pay the same amount for gas and/or electric service over a 12-month period. "Today's
GRAND RAPIDS - Are you interested in learning the basics of renewable energy systems and how they work in Michigan? The Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association will host three renewable energy seminars Feb. 19 at Grand Rapids Community College. The three seminars will cover Solar Heating, Solar Electricity and Wind Electricity. At these seminars you
QUINNESEC - The Michigan Magnet Fund is making a $10 million investment in a $45 million Verso Paper Corp. Renewable Energy Project in its Quinnesec Plant in the Upper Peninsula. The investment will create at least 50 more jobs for small businesses that supply the biomass to the plant. The project will meet up to
ANN ARBOR ? Advanced Photonix said Monday it has won a $625,000 initial purchase commitment from an unnamed Chinese telecom systems provider to supply its 40-gigabit-per-second high-speed optical receiver, the BR-40D, for long haul data communications. All API would say is the provider is a key supplier to rapidly growing telecom markets such as China,
YPSILANTI - Michigan-based business owners will share their success with aspiring entrepreneurs as the Eastern Michigan University College of Business presents the Sesi Midwest Entrepreneurship Conference on February 11 at the EMU Student Center. The conference will focus on Innovation and Green entrepreneurship in Michigan. The keynote speaker will be Elizabeth Redmond, founder and president