A 'Cool City' or a 'Coal City'?

The American Wind Energy Association reported in January that the "wind energy industry installed 5,244 megawatts in 2007, expanding the nation's total wind power generating capacity by 45 percent in a single calendar year and injecting an investment of over $9 billion into the economy."

Minnesota alone installed 1299 MW in 2007 bringing many new jobs and clean energy to the Great Lakes region.

However, Michigan, with the second-highest wind potential in the Great Lakes region was not listed in the report. We are dead last in our region, doing virtually nothing.