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The path to 100% clean energy in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

By Dan Haugen

12 September 2024

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CLEAN ENERGY: Michigan regulators have until Dec. 1 to recommend adjustments to the state’s clean energy standard to accommodate the Upper Peninsula region, where a sparser population and high energy costs add to the challenge of achieving 100% clean energy by 2040. (Grist/Interlochen Public Radio)

ALSO:

Iowa clean energy advocates say if utilities aggressively took advantage of federal incentives they could reduce costs and transition to 100% renewable generation within 5-10 years. (Iowa Capital Dispatch)
The clean energy economy has attracted billions of dollars in investment and annually generates more than $20 million in state and local tax revenue in Nebraska, according to an advocacy group’s new analysis. (Fox Nebraska)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES:

Automaker Stellantis says it will spend $406 million to retool three Michigan factories to make electric vehicle or battery parts, including its first battery-electric light duty pickup truck. (Associated Press, Bridge Michigan)
U.S. school districts are slowly but surely switching to electric school buses as Michigan research suggests academic benefits from ditching diesel. (Yale 360)

GRID:

An Illinois gas plant previously scheduled to close next year will now continue operating, its owners say, following record prices in grid operator PJM’s recent capacity auction. (Heatmap)
Federal regulators dismiss complaints from a utility and regional grid operator MISO against the Southwest Power Pool over equipment that’s being chronically stressed by a North Dakota cryptocurrency facility. (RTO Insider, subscription)
A Canadian man pleads guilty to charges related to shooting at an electric substation and pipeline infrastructure in the Dakotas. (South Dakota Searchlight)

BUILDINGS: An Indiana contractor is building a passive home and plans an environmental resilience training center on the same property. (Indiana Public Media)

BIOFUELS: The fledgling sustainable aviation fuels industry faces high expectations and big questions as it gathers for a national summit in St. Paul this week. (Star Tribune)

PIPELINES: Iowa Republican lawmakers suing state regulators over their approval of the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline call the project an attack on landowners’ “God-given” Fifth Amendment rights. (Iowa Capital Dispatch)

CARBON CAPTURE: A new Kansas State study shows how natural fertilizer and no-till farming methods can improve soil health and sequester more carbon. (Kansas Reflector)