http://www.michigan.gov/ en Copyright 2009 - State Of Michigan Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:02:20 EST http://www.michigan.gov/podcast http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://michigan.gov/images/gov/gradio_143016_7_188404_7.jpg 144 125 http://michigan.gov/gov/0,1607,7-168-37483---,00.html http://michigan.gov/documents/gov/Gov218Full_296443_7.mp3 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EDT This week in Michigan, despite our difficulties over the budget, we've actually been walking on sunshine. And that's because there were three positive developments involving solar energy in our state.
On Tuesday we announced that two companies will build solar panel manufacturing facilities in Michigan. The first is Clairvoyant Energy which will invest $857 million to convert part of Ford's former Wixom Assembly plant in Oakland County to a solar panel plant. Clairvoyant plans to hire 750 people at Wixom.
The second company is Suniva. Suniva will invest $250 million in a new solar manufacturing facility in Saginaw County, and they will create 500 new jobs. http://michigan.gov/documents/gov/Gov218Full_296443_7.mp3