Four Key Takeaways from a Michigan Utility’s Clean Energy Transition
By Andy Balaskovitz
Dec 10, 2018 2:30 PM ET
Campaign:
Consumers Energy | Energy for the Future
Originally published on December 6, 2018 by Midwest Energy News
In a speech this week to a large, business-friendly crowd in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Consumers Energy President and CEO Patti Poppe presented an economic case for solar power, electric vehicles and moving past coal.
The company closed seven Michigan coal plants in 2016, cutting carbon emissions 25 percent without hurting its workforce. As the company focuses on solar in the coming years, Poppe said electric vehicles will play a growing role in the company’s “triple bottom line” principle of serving people, the planet and prosperity.
