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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>ENERGY TIDBITS – June 2010<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:windowtext'>Two New Centers of Energy Excellence (COEE) for wind
manufacturing have been announced by Governor Granholm. The Michigan
Strategic Fund board approved a COEE designation and $3.5 million in funding
for Energetx Composites, the Holland-based spin-off of S2 Yachts, which will
collaborate with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Dow Chemical to manufacture
wind turbine blades with advanced materials.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:windowtext'>The project will receive $3.5 million in matching funds from DOE.
The MSF also approved a COEE designation and $6 million in funding for Astraeus
Wind Energy, a cooperative venture between MAG Industrial Automation Systems
and Dowding Machining, also in collaboration with ORNL and Dow Chemical. The
center will be focused on the automated manufacturing of wind turbine blade
components using advanced materials. The project will receive $7 million in
matching funds from DOE.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:windowtext'><a href="http://www.MichiganAdvantage.org/COEE"><font
color=black><span style='color:windowtext'>www.MichiganAdvantage.org/COEE</span></font></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association (GLREA) has announced that the
Rock Financial Showplace in Novi will be the site for the 5th annual Michigan
Energy Fair, taking place June 25<sup>th</sup> – 27<sup>th</sup>. The
Fair will include 60 or more workshops and over 100 exhibits. If you want to
learn about energy efficiency and renewable energy, come to the Fair. <a
href="http://www.glrea.org/">www.glrea.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a
href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103353126840&s=774&e=001Vk-rtBOB7lF6JMXZMpiucpJsNC27YLORNTL_399lZrAiGyxaFxbokhWNY5QBtJj_kBbYbHHpOH1bJzFPrOywgOkF4bZLimVqHjvYygaxna5dvfQvoal0K3GabY_cKykMVLgTrHBtlk8="
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color=black><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>51st State of
the State Survey</span></font></a> conducted by the <a
href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103353126840&s=774&e=001Vk-rtBOB7lF7maeuZwmgtwAhGuItKePPLpTq4H2mYDULIVu6A8H1l8l-tRga54QqXhJrf7EQU-fzlmXn5jpYJwHAY1rZ7PUcTPMrzMGI4I-mWst_rb09iw=="
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title="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103353126840&s=774&e=001Vk-rtBOB7lF7maeuZwmgtwAhGuItKePPLpTq4H2mYDULIVu6A8H1l8l-tRga54QqXhJrf7EQU-fzlmXn5jpYJwHAY1rZ7PUcTPMrzMGI4I-mWst_rb09iw=="><font
color=black><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>MSU Institute
of Public Policy and Social Research</span></font></a> shows that 95% of
Michigan residents believe the development of renewable energy is "very
important" or "somewhat important" to the state's collective
economic recovery. The MSU Land Policy Institute is translating the results of
the survey conducted in early 2009 through a series of bulletins including
"<a
href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103353126840&s=774&e=001Vk-rtBOB7lGqDeNw6d1NjTIkuUNQt4j_AcPucN8GlT9zTR-rjeps-rgCoxJ5sEQNt02aKdt_8cWUNrIY1nutGBhpVHBX6cGXW0mi4zPAAVKMf16is7KgwyKn0ezNoCsOdhJ05Kfc1BkluixZcZC6w_Zw6jS43oXYqCbHYDpJI2I8saBCsRCTbQl76SqaYzyOE4xQ2e421dw="
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color=black><span style='color:windowtext'>How Important is the Development of
Renewable Energy to Michigan's Economy Recovery?</span></font></a>" <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Merrill Tool & Machine is supplying components to Northern Power
Systems for a new utility scale 2.2 MW direct drive, permanent magnet wind
generator. In January the company secured $22 million in federal advanced
energy manufacturing tax credits under ARRA which allowed the company to
purchase equipment to make the components.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Michigan USDA Rural Development Agency will have approximately $11.4
million in total funding available through the Renewable Energy for America
Program (REAP) for FY2010. $1 million will be available for grant requests
greater than $20,000 and $830,000 will be available for grants less than
$20,000. $9.6 million will be available for guaranteed loans. Grants provide
25% funding for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. Applications are
due June 30, 2010. Contact USDA Rural Development Business Programs at (517)
324-5157. Federal Register notice is at<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-9580.pdf">http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-9580.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Michigan
State University students majoring in packaging, business, anthropology, or a
host of other disciplines will now be able to earn a specialization in
sustainability. The program is the first in the country that will use a
“competency-based curriculum,” which will demand more from its
students than just the taking and passing of classes. The specialization will
provide students with practical experience, e.g. service/learning projects,
undergraduate research, leadership of a student organization, or producing an
educational video. The specialization will require 18 credit hours of study
that will appear on students’ official transcripts and complement their
majors. <a
href="http://www.reg.msu.edu/AcademicPrograms/ProgramDetail.asp?Program=5333"><font
color=black><span style='color:windowtext'>www.reg.msu.edu/AcademicPrograms/ProgramDetail.asp?Program=5333</span></font></a>.</span></font><font
color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Proposed LEED state tax incentives, <a
href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/%28S%28isiolh45cmimuw45qhbohe3p%29%29/mileg.aspx?page=getObject&objectName=2010-SB-1111"><font
color=black><span style='color:windowtext'>Senate bills 1111-1114</span></font></a>,
would create two financial incentives for building green. The first would be a
property tax abatement of up to 12 years for new or rehabilitated LEED
buildings — 20% for basic LEED certification, 30% for silver, 40% for
gold and 50% for platinum. The second incentive is a tax-increment financing
program for LEED-certified buildings with eligible sustainability features on
eligible brownfield sites.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Dow Chemical Co. has partnered with Cobblestone Homes, a mid-Michigan
home builder, to create a home that it contends will eliminate utility bills.
The 3,400-sq.ft. "Vision Zero" home in Bay City will produce as much
energy as it consumes using Dow products, from Styrofoam to insulate the
basement to Powerhouse Solar Shingles to generate power. The house will use
60-70% less energy than a conventional home.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Ventower Industries had qroundbreaking for a new wind tower
manufacturing facility at the Port of Monroe. Manufacturing is expected to
begin in March 2011 with a capacity of 250 towers per year. Shipments to
customers are expected to be primarily by barge.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>BuildUp Michigan Design
Challenge has been won by the Lansing Community College Mac-Zero team who beat
out six other teams. The winning design is a 3,075 sq.ft. Victorian-style house,
lathered in solar panels according to team member Jeromy Clements. The team is
working with competition organizers to get funding to build the
"net-zero" home on Mackinac Island in the fall. <a
href="http://www.wilx.com/local/headlines/93203849.html"><font color=black><span
style='color:windowtext'>http://www.wilx.com/local/headlines/93203849.html</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Metro Detroit's transformation to a smart grid got a big boost when DOE
gave DTE Energy an $84 million grant to improve Metro Detroit's electric grid.
DTE will match the grant, bringing the SmartCurrent's budget to $170 million.
It will take 6-8 years to make the switch to a smart grid. Part of the smart
grid switch will include installing 600,000 new smart meters in parts of Wayne,
Oakland, Livingston, Lapeer, Ingham, and Tuscola counties. These meters allow
for easier access to energy usage information through wireless communications.
This and other technologies are expected to improve electrical service
reliability and give better control of energy consumption and costs.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Wayne State University is adding a B.S. in Electric Transportation
Technology, a M.S. in Electric-Drive Vehicle Engineering and a graduate
certificate program in Electric-Drive Vehicle Engineering, a subset of the
master's degree. The program is funded by a $5 million grant from DOE through
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>University of Michigan will receive a $760,550 grant from Bureau of
Energy Systems, DELEG to establish the Michigan Industrial Energy Center (MIEC).
The three year project for delivering energy savings to energy intensive
industries in Michigan is funded by a DOE grant. The MIEC will offer an
intensive energy education and certification program for current and future
industrial energy managers, assist industries by conducting 25 Save Energy Now
assessments, and help deploy energy-efficient furnace technology at two
industrial demonstration sites. For more information contact Dr. Arvind Atreya
at 734-647-4790 or <a href="mailto:aatreya@umich.edu"
title="mailto:aatreya@umich.edu"><font color=black><span style='color:windowtext'>aatreya@umich.edu</span></font></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Department of Natural Resources and Energy (DNRE) oil and gas lease
auction held in May netted $178.3 million -- a one-day sale that nearly matched
the $190 million in total combined sales since the auctions began in 1929.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Michigan State University’s dairy barn at the Kellogg Biological
Station has been silver-level LEED-certified—the first agriculture
facility to earn the honor in the US. A few of the environmentally friendly
features include a recycled concrete driveway and temperature sensors to take
advantage of natural ventilation. The design includes installing showers (to
encourage employees to bike or walk to work) and offering preferred parking to
visitors with energy-efficient vehicles. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:windowtext'>Kalamazoo Valley Community College will be offering for the
third time a course where students design a 1-3 kW wind turbine, fabricate its
components, assemble the generator, and make certain it produces electricity.
Planning is underway to locate and commission the two turbines that were the
products of the first classes. The sites will be in the vicinity of the
145-foot turbine in operation on the west end of the KVCC campus.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:windowtext'><a href="http://www.kvcc.edu/schedule"><font color=black><span
style='color:windowtext'>www.kvcc.edu/schedule</span></font></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="http://www.umich.edu/"><font color=black><span
style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>University of Michigan</span></font></a>
will receive $4.3 million from DOE to pursue new nuclear energy technologies.
The university's funding is split into $1,181,379, $996,581 and $406,712 for
separate research projects designed to develop next-generation nuclear
reactors, $931,603 to research better ways to store, recycle and dispose of
radioactive waste materials, and $798,943 for "blue sky" projects
focusing on futuristic nuclear energy technologies. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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