Day: October 3, 2025
Ottawa County needs to introduce more real competition and alternatives into the local grid market so local residential interests are better served.Ottawa County needs to introduce more real competition and alternatives into the local grid market so local residential interests are better served.
There is a section of Blendon Township with Great Lakes Energy Cooperative, and there is a section with Consumers Energy. But MPSC discourages competition among electric providers, which is just the opposite of what it should be doing for the sake of customers. There should instead be encouraged vigorous competition between the various electric cooperatives […]
I have a dream…I have a dream…
I have a dream that all of the fossil fuel plants and the electric grid in Ottawa County will be locally controlled by the time Trump’s term ends, and that they will be judged not by the CO2 they emit, but by their generation of reliable, affordable, environmentally responsible electric for our baseload electric. Three […]
Last night Polkton Township became the 4th township in Ottawa County to pass the 2nd round of “Save The Campbell” Resolutions, creating an exploratory committee to investigate local control over electric, including over the Campbell.Last night Polkton Township became the 4th township in Ottawa County to pass the 2nd round of “Save The Campbell” Resolutions, creating an exploratory committee to investigate local control over electric, including over the Campbell.
We are thankful for the Polkton Township Board‘s strong defense for the citizens it represents. They unanimously passed a modified form of the 2nd round of “Save The Campbell” Resolutions. Their modified form seeks for the exploratory committee to consider not only the ones specified in the original version, but even other possible ones too. […]