Energy/Environment News
05/18/12 Auburn Hills-based Energy Conversion Devices Inc. announced late Thursday afternoon that it had terminated President and CEO Julian Hawkins and Joseph Conroy, executive vice president of operations.
05/16/12 The regional authority operating Cobo Center is $2.5 million ahead of its annual budget projections six months into its fiscal year.
05/15/12 Lithium-ion battery maker A123 Systems Inc. announced today that it lost $125 million in its first quarter because of a recall of defective batteries made at its Livonia plant.
05/11/12 Curiouser and curiouser is the ongoing epic tale of the downfall and sale, no sale, maybe sale of the assets of Auburn Hills-based Energy Conversion Devices Inc. (OTC: ENERQ.PK), the long-struggling maker of photovoltaic roofing materials.
05/09/12 LUDINGTON — In the dim light below deck on the S.S. Badger, chief engineer Bill Kulka worked toward a deadline. He and other employees had torn apart the ship's two steam engines, removing mammoth pistons and bearings, and were laboring to get it back together before the start of the car ferry's summer season May 24.
05/08/12 ANN ARBOR (AP) — The University of Michigan is getting $1.3 million in federal money to help train and educate the next generation of leaders in the nation’s nuclear industry.
05/07/12 Auburn Hills-based Energy Conversion Devices Inc. said this afternoon that it has canceled an auction of its assets that had been scheduled for Tuesday in the law offices of Detroit-based Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP.
05/02/12 Detroit-based DTE Energy Co. will award up to $250,000 for one or more ideas in energy efficiency.
04/29/12 Houston-based Enbridge Energy Partners LP plans to invest $1.75 billion and generate up to 528 construction jobs -- much of it in Southeast Michigan -- to install more than 250 miles of pipe and replace the line that ruptured in a 2010 oil spill.
04/25/12 Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is leading an effort by 19 other state attorneys general and the governor of Iowa to overturn tough mercury pollution standards that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency put into effect last December.
04/24/12 Auburn Hills-based Energy Conversion Devices Inc. has delayed the auction previously scheduled for 10 a.m. today for the assets of its United Solar Ovonic LLC subsidiary.
04/22/12 The Salamon Group Inc., a Modesto-Calif.-based builder and manager of renewable energy projects that made an offer last week to buy the shares of Auburn Hills-based Energy Conversion Devices Inc., also plans to offer to buy the manufacturing facilities of its United Solar Ovonic LLC subsidiary.
04/19/12 A biomass plant could be coming to Pontiac.
04/18/12 Modesto, Calif.-based Salamon Group Inc. on Tuesday offered to buy bankrupt solar-panel manufacturer Energy Conversion Devices Inc.
04/18/12 LANSING (AP) — Customers of DTE Energy Co. and CMS Energy Corp.’s Consumers Energy unit are expected to get a refund soon.
04/16/12 PORT HURON (AP) — A company that wants to use hundreds of floating turbines to generate electricity from water flowing in the St. Clair River between Michigan and Ontario is hoping to make a trial run for the project.
04/15/12 The food and agriculture industry contributes about $91.4 billion to Michigan's economy, according to a Michigan State University study released last week. In 2004, the industry was valued at $60.1 billion.
04/12/12 Lithium-ion battery maker A123 Systems Inc. has received an extension on its $249.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
04/11/12 Marathon Petroleum Co. LP reports that nearly nine in 10 property owners in the Oakwood Heights neighborhood are interested in a buyout offer to leave the southwest Detroit community next to Michigan's only oil refinery.
04/11/12 A123 Systems Inc. manufactured the lithium-ion battery that caused an explosion at General Motor Co.’s Warren Technical Center this morning, according to The Wall Street Journal.
04/11/12 LANSING — The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that the Michigan Public Service Commission erred in approving a nearly $37 million rate increase for Detroit Edison Co. to fund its so-called smart meter program.
04/08/12 Since launching their Midland-based solar company in 2009, Steve Ellebracht and his partners have built solar panels and installed them on farmhouses, gas stations, funeral homes, garages, churches, synagogues, restaurants and houses. One of the solar arrays is harvesting enough sunlight to power 30-35 homes as it feeds energy back into the power grid.
04/04/12 Taylor-based Atlas Oil is working with Burlingame Industries Inc. to distribute an anti-fuel theft device that can help reduce oil tank theft from businesses.
04/03/12 A week after announcing it would spend $55 million to replace defective lithium-ion batteries and facing a new class-action lawsuit, A123 Systems Inc. hired two new executives to improve quality and reduce costs, the company said today.
03/30/12 While there are no offshore wind farms in Michigan yet, Gov. Rick Snyder has signed a deal with federal agencies and four other states that could allow a speedier permitting process for future development in the Great Lakes.
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Enbridge: $1.75B pipeline plan will create 528 jobs