Lucas Smolcic Larson
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Environmental Reporter with MLive, focused on energy and utilities in Michigan. Contact: https://www.mlive.com/staff/LSMOLCIC/posts.html
Michigan is trying to lure data centers with tax incentives. DTE and Consumers are working on deals to serve them. I wrote this week about why this will continue to be a hot topic for utility customers.
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Michigan utilities court data centers supercharging power demand amid AI boom
As DTE and Consumers Energy plan for power-hungry computing facilities undergirding artificial intelligence, state regulators are offering a chance to "have your say in Michigan’s energy future.”
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August 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Michigan is trying to lure data centers with tax incentives. DTE and Consumers are working on deals to serve them. I wrote this week about why this will continue to be a hot topic for utility customers.
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On Mackinac, Consumers' CEO confirms some of the challenges around keeping Campbell open: bringing staff back, getting coal after contracts expired and once again leasing rail cars.
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Consumers CEO addresses J.H. Campbell Plant’s future
The Consumers Energy CEO says it will be a challenge keeping the company’s last coal-fired power plant open.
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May 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
On Mackinac, Consumers' CEO confirms some of the challenges around keeping Campbell open: bringing staff back, getting coal after contracts expired and once again leasing rail cars.
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Noted. Thanks, David!
May 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Noted. Thanks, David!
She also dug into the Indigenous roots of the practice.
“Once Native management of the land was curtailed by non-Native thinking, we had Smokey the Bear stomping out every flame,” one tribal elder told her.
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“Once Native management of the land was curtailed by non-Native thinking, we had Smokey the Bear stomping out every flame,” one tribal elder told her.
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More ‘good fire’ in Michigan restores Indigenous land practices
Indigenous people stewarded the land for millennia and using fire was among the ways they did it.
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May 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
She also dug into the Indigenous roots of the practice.
“Once Native management of the land was curtailed by non-Native thinking, we had Smokey the Bear stomping out every flame,” one tribal elder told her.
www.mlive.com/environment/...
“Once Native management of the land was curtailed by non-Native thinking, we had Smokey the Bear stomping out every flame,” one tribal elder told her.
www.mlive.com/environment/...