Expanding Solar in Michigan

Expanding Solar in Michigan

Send my email
image of Expanding Solar in Michigan

Renewable Energy in Michigan (REM) is a non-profit organization that works to expand solar and geothermal energy in Michigan that will save you money from high utility electric rates, promote a clean environment and fight climate change. 

REM is the sister organization to the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association (GLREA), an organization that educates the public about the benefits of renewable energy and works to enact policies that expand renewable energy in Michigan. 

In order to expand solar and geothermal energy in Michigan, new policies must be enacted with the Michigan Legislature and the Michigan Public Service Commission. 

These are ...

Renewable Energy in Michigan (REM) is a non-profit organization that works to expand solar and geothermal energy in Michigan that will save you money from high utility electric rates, promote a clean environment and fight climate change. 

REM is the sister organization to the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association (GLREA), an organization that educates the public about the benefits of renewable energy and works to enact policies that expand renewable energy in Michigan. 

In order to expand solar and geothermal energy in Michigan, new policies must be enacted with the Michigan Legislature and the Michigan Public Service Commission. 

These are very difficult undertakings, because DTE and Consumers Energy oppose these policies because they want to maintain their monopoly status and want to continue selling their very expensive utility electricity.  DTE and Consumers Energy don't want people and business to have a choice on how to purchase electricity.  We think that all people and business should have the right to be able to choose where they get their electricity from. 

Michigan has the highest utility rates in the Upper Midwest! 

So help us enact new policies by sending emails. 

You can further help by becoming a Member of the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association (GLREA). To join click here https://www.2glrea.org/membership and then scroll down and click on the yellow ‘Become a GLREA Member’ button and then follow the directions. Dues are tax deductible because GLREA is a non-profit orgnaization. 

Thanks for your support. Feel free to contact me at [email protected] if you have any questions. 

John Freeman

+

Contact Your Legislators to Support the Clean Energy Future Plan

This is about enacting the Clean Energy Future Plan, that creates a plan for Michigan to accelerate the transition to Renewable Energy.

The Clean Energy Future Pan consists of five bills that will lay the foundation for Michigan to make the transition quicker to Renewable Energy.  

  • Senate Bill 271 and House Bill 4759 will create a 60% Renewable Portfolio Standard, which means that the utiities must generate at least 60% of their electricity by 2030.
  • Senate Bill 272 and House Bill 4760 will give the Michigan Public Service Commission more authority to consider climate change, affordability of rates and public health concerns as the Commission regulates DTE and Consumers Energy.  
  • Senate Bill 273 and House Bill 4761 expands the Energy Waste and Reduction program that pushes energy efficiency as a strategy to reduce energy consumption and save money on high utility bills. 
  • Senate Bill 152 & 153 and House Bill 4464 & 4464 that will establish Community Solar in Michigan that will enable all people and buisness to be able to purchase solar.
  • Senate Bill 362 and 363 that would eliminate the 1% Cap on solar and restore fair compensation to solar owners for the extra solar electricity they export back to the grid for the utilities to reuse. 

These bills will update Michigan's Energy laws to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels to clean renewable energy (solar, wind and geothermal), that will save money, promote better public health and fight climate change. 

But we need to enact these bills into law. 

These bills have been assigned to the Senate Energy and Environment Committee, Chaired by Senator Sean McCann and the House Committee on Energy, Communications and Technology, Chaired by Representative Helena Scott.

Please send an email to your State Senator and your State Representative asking them to support these bills and to urge Sen. Sean McCann and Rep. Helena Scott to hold a hearing and a vote on these bills. Thanks!

Compose your email

Email Tips +

  • I have provided a draft email that you can use.  
  • Feel free to change the wording so you are comfortable with your email message.
  • Feel free to add additonal personal comments.
  • Keep your email reasonably brief. 
  • And please share your email and action to your friends and on Facebook and Twitter.
  • Thanks for your help!

How we use the data you enter on this form

Do Gooder (the advocacy platform powering this online action) processes personal information from you that you enter on this form so that we can provide the functions and related services to you and The Campaigner (the organisation responsible for this online action) for their legitimate purposes, including possibly exporting it to other systems, and to effectively respond to enquiries and communications related to those services.

Specifically when you enter:

  • Your location data (residential address or postcode) it is used to locate your elected representative, to pre-populate your email signature and to provide The Campaigner with a visualisation of the location of the support for this campaign.

  • All other data you may enter, including your email address, name, telephone number, commentary and so on is used by The Campaigner to advocate for the campaign’s goals and where required may be sent to the target of the campaign.

The data collected by Do Gooder is also used by us in aggregate form to improve the service and may be held on your behalf outside your country of residence by our third party service providers. These providers are bound by contract to only use personal information on our behalf, in accordance with agreed terms. While the privacy laws of the country in which personal information is stored or transferred may be different from those in your country, we will always have safeguards in place when storing or transferring personal information. We will never sell, rent, loan or in any other way pass your information on to other parties other than to provide this service to you and The Campaigner.

The personal information collected by Do Gooder is held subject to a Data Processing Agreement between Do Gooder and The Campaigner in compliance with the EU's GDPR and Australian law.

Learn more about our privacy policy here

How is my data used?