Michigan companies in the advanced and renewable energy sector announced the creation of the Energy Innovation Business Council, a new trade group focused on growing Michigan's advanced energy industry, and unveiled a benchmark study on their sector's jobs and economic impact.

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The Energy Innovation Business Council (EIBC), a new trade group focused on expanding the state's advanced energy industry, formally launched Wednesday.

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Lansing - Michigan can take several approaches to encourage the growth of the state's renewable-energy industry, says a study released today by a newly formed trade association.

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Lansing - Former state Rep. Edward Clemente is hoping to draw more green-energy companies and jobs to Michigan.

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Renewable energy companies and component makers could have a $6 billion impact on Michigan's economy, says a new trade association devoted to advocating for accelerating the growth of that sector within the state.

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Twenty five percent of the energy Michigan-based utilities generate or purchase by 2025 would need to come from wind, solar, biomass or hydropower under a constitutional amendment being proposed by a coalition of businesses, organized labor, health groups and environmentalists.

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LANSING -- A group wants to amend Michigan's constitution to more than double the existing requirement for how much of the state's electricity must come from renewable sources by 2025.

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The Dow Chemical Company, Astraeus Wind Energy Inc. and MAG Industrial Automation Systems (MAG) announced a project that will be a catalyst for the advancement of the wind industry enabled by funding from the state of Michigan.

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URV USA, a subsidiary of a Finnish supplier of cast-iron wind turbine components, will collaborate with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to support a foundry in Eaton Rapids to develop a next-generation casting process to produce large, utility-scale wind turbine components. Astraeus Wind Energy has already committed to purchasing a large portion of URV USA’s initial output to fulfill existing and projected orders for machining large, utility-scale hubs and bedplates.

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A Rochester company expects to create 100 clean energy jobs in the next 1 1/2 years in Eaton Rapids. URV USA LLC was awarded a $3.5 million grant and $500,000 loan from federal stimulus funds to create a foundry that would produce castings for wind turbine components. The foundry will be located next to the Astraeus Wind Energy Inc. complex in Eaton Rapids, Schauer said. It will supply Astraeus.

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A local wind energy manufacturer and its partners have received a $6 million state grant to develop advanced wind turbine blade components. Astraeus Wind Energy Inc. was awarded the grant through the Michigan Economic Development Corp.'s Centers of Energy Excellence program.

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The Society of Manufacturing Engineers' Manufacturing Engineering magazine featured the award of a $7 million grant to Astraes Wind Energy to develop its revolutionary wind hub machining cell for high-volume manufacturing.

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St. Clair County is taking steps toward its stated goal of pursuing the alternative energy industry,  Economic Development Alliance Executive Director Doug Alexander said. Astraeus Wind Energy  will be awarded a $7 million grant from the state to design, engineer and prototype production of windmill parts. Much of that money could be spent in Port Huron.

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A new collaboration between MAG Industrial Automation Systems and Dowding Machining LLC is poised to revolutionize manufacturing of wind turbine components with specially designed CNC modules for the production of hubs and new automated technology for composite wind blade production. The Lansing, Mich.-based venture, dubbed Astraeus from the Greek mythological "father of the four winds," will use a unique new machine design to dramatically reduce the production times of turbine hubs...

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A new partnership is preparing to take the wind energy industry by storm. Dowding Machining LLC of Eaton Rapids, Mich., and MAG Industrial Automation Systems of Sterling Heights, Mich., have formed a partnership to engineer and manufacture advanced alternative energy technologies, beginning with wind turbine components. The partnership, which operates as Astraeus, already is making a global impact, with significant interest from Asian and European countries.

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For the better part of 44 years, Dowding Industries has enjoyed a solid business as a manufacturer of progressive die stampings, metal fabrications and welded assemblies. Founded in 1965 by Skip Dowding, the company has remained in the community of Eaton Rapids and within the Dowding Family.

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