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Not great. But you brought all that rain with you. It was good sleeping weather yesterday. I know. Lets talk weather and traffic. As long as you look good, and you look good. So nice for you to say. We have two systems here. The one we had last night is pushing east and south. There is a break right here but then this section that is the one we are looking for later today. Probably around the noon hour things will juice up. This one has a little cold air and dynamics so we have to incorporate th...

The group reconnected the trailhead pavilion to the power grid, and they buried the power lines that ran over the parking lot under the ground.

The annual production of the completed system is estimated to be enough electricity to power 19 homes

MARQUETTE — The Marquette Township Planning Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved a special-use permit for a solar energy system to be located at the M

MARQUETTE — The Marquette Township Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved a one-year option agreement for a downstate developer interested in creating a work

5:48 Batteries are more efficient, the price of solar panels has plummeted, and solar customers are no longer restricted to the liberal crowd concerned about their carbon footprint.  “We can sell it to essentially both sides of the aisle,” says Ian Olmsted, president of Peninsula Solar.  For Olmsted, it’s obvious why there’s so much interest in the technology. “Basically it comes down to price. I mean, you can be sending your kid to college for what you are paying electric rates in ...

rspitza@miningjournal.net MARQUETTE — The Upper Peninsula Clean Energy Conference series held a virtual event hosted by Michigan Energy Options on Thursday afternoon with a focus on solar power. Thursday’s session, titled “Solar Energy Case Studies — Lessons from On the Ground Projects,” offered discussions with leaders of solar and wind projects of different scales in L’Anse, Marquette and downstate Gratiot County. Moderating the event’s three sessions were Michael Larson, U.P...

  The panels supply the bulk of his home electricity, and when he’s not using power, he sells the excess energy back to the grid, nearly eliminating an electricity bill that would otherwise cost him about $1,100 annually.  “It makes good economic sense,” said Seyfarth, so he’s pursuing a similar project on a home he owns Glen Arbor, in Consumers Energy territory. But due to a state policy that limits rooftop solar owners’ ability to sell their excess power, the financial math that m...