Michigan has potential to wrangle the wind for energy

Potential is a word the can be applied to a lot of things right now in Michigan. With industries like film, green building, and alternative energy, and with cities like Detroit and Flint, potential is a key word for all of those things and for the state. So, here is another example: Wind Energy (falls under alternative energy, by the way).

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The state could host as much as 320,000 megawatts of power from offshore wind, more than 10 times the amount of peak electricity produced now in the state from all sources.

"That's an exorbitant number," said Charles McKeown, one of the authors of the report by the Michigan State University Land Policy Center. That is 80 times the projected output of the world's largest wind farm planned by billionaire T. Boone Pickens in the windy Texas panhandle.

"This result has the potential to elevate Michigan's wind energy profile nationally and internationally because the resource available is significant," said Dr. Soji Adelaja, director of the Land Policy Institute and a study author.

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