Energy Technologytag:blog.mlive.com,2016:/svengustafson/46612010-07-27T16:18:14ZSven Gustafson's Michigan Business NotesMovable Type Enterprise 4.29-advanceUtilities to Michigan: Solar energy wantedtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.34123242009-08-10T22:23:37Z2009-08-10T22:35:45ZMichigan's two largest electric utilities are planning to implement photovoltaic solar installations to help them meet Michigan's new renewable energy mandates, despite the state's cloudy winter weather....Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
Michigan's two largest electric utilities are planning to implement photovoltaic solar installations to help them meet Michigan's new renewable energy mandates, despite the state's cloudy winter weather....
Michigan startup sees opportunity in water-saving technology for toiletstag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.33787652009-08-04T21:23:54Z2009-08-07T18:59:12ZAn uncle-and-nephew team is targeting the humble but ubiquitous toilet as a business opportunity for a new product that fuses the promise of water conservation with a made-in-Michigan business model....Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
An uncle-and-nephew team is targeting the humble but ubiquitous toilet as a business opportunity for a new product that fuses the promise of water conservation with a made-in-Michigan business model....
Detroit Three urge federal support for hydrogen researchtag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.33310332009-07-27T18:23:44Z2009-07-27T18:33:21ZThe Detroit Three automakers are urging the Obama administration to restore funding cut from hydrogen fuel cell research, arguing in a white paper that failing to do so would make the U.S. "uncomfortably dependent" on foreign nations for the technology....Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
The Detroit Three automakers are urging the Obama administration to restore funding cut from hydrogen fuel cell research, arguing in a white paper that failing to do so would make the U.S. "uncomfortably dependent" on foreign nations for the technology....
Love it or hate it, Ann Arbor will miss its Newstag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.33047192009-07-23T18:15:06Z2009-07-24T01:21:20ZSven Gustafson blogs about energy technology for Michigan Business Review.I never worked for The Ann Arbor News, but I grew up reading it as a city native whose parents were decades-long subscribers. And since last fall, Business Review has worked...Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
Sven Gustafson blogs about energy technology for Michigan Business Review.I never worked for The Ann Arbor News, but I grew up reading it as a city native whose parents were decades-long subscribers. And since last fall, Business Review has worked...
New energy efficiency programs in Michigan offer rebates, incentives to entice customerstag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.32501022009-07-16T15:43:25Z2009-07-16T15:55:30ZSven Gustafson blogs about energy technology for Michigan Business Review. State and electric utility officials are hoping that a new law requiring greater energy efficiency will help businesses and residents realize the power of green. The message that they hope...Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
Sven Gustafson blogs about energy technology for Michigan Business Review. State and electric utility officials are hoping that a new law requiring greater energy efficiency will help businesses and residents realize the power of green. The message that they hope...
Regional leader blasts Detroit-Windsor border infrastructuretag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.32344602009-07-14T20:42:06Z2009-07-14T20:51:38ZThe Detroit Regional Chamber is joining the likes of the Washington D.C.-based Brookings Institution in calling for reforms to the U.S.-Canadian border to improve international trade and commerce. But one prominent regional voice backing the proposals suggests the Detroit-Windsor region...Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
The Detroit Regional Chamber is joining the likes of the Washington D.C.-based Brookings Institution in calling for reforms to the U.S.-Canadian border to improve international trade and commerce. But one prominent regional voice backing the proposals suggests the Detroit-Windsor region...
Patterson cites record investment, tells residents 'Just hang on'tag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.31975602009-07-09T18:38:12Z2010-07-27T16:18:14ZSven Gustafson blogs about energy technology for Michigan Business Review.If you're a laid-off worker losing hope in Michigan's most prosperous county, or a business owner or investor losing sleep, L. Brooks Patterson has a message for you. "We're halfway through...Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
Sven Gustafson blogs about energy technology for Michigan Business Review.If you're a laid-off worker losing hope in Michigan's most prosperous county, or a business owner or investor losing sleep, L. Brooks Patterson has a message for you. "We're halfway through...
Local governments in Michigan prepare for explosion in residential renewablestag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.31729522009-07-06T17:54:38Z2009-07-06T19:11:56ZIs Michigan ready for an explosion in residential renewable energy? The Detroit News has an interesting piece today examining how municipal governments all over Southeast Michigan are preparing ordinances to regulate the use of wind turbines. The ordinances would regulate...Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
Is Michigan ready for an explosion in residential renewable energy? The Detroit News has an interesting piece today examining how municipal governments all over Southeast Michigan are preparing ordinances to regulate the use of wind turbines. The ordinances would regulate...
Dow exec sees need for competitive, robust battery industry in Michigantag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.31419332009-07-01T19:26:14Z2009-07-02T01:22:41ZMichigan's nascent advanced battery industry is set to grow into the nation's largest as four production plants prepare for launch. That's led to some concern that the state could have too much capacity to supply electric vehicles that a), aren't...Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
Michigan's nascent advanced battery industry is set to grow into the nation's largest as four production plants prepare for launch. That's led to some concern that the state could have too much capacity to supply electric vehicles that a), aren't...
Auto dealership management program motors on despite industry chaostag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.30903062009-06-24T21:04:29Z2009-06-25T17:07:50ZSven Gustafson blogs about energy technology for Michigan Business Review. General Motors and Chrysler may taking the meat cleaver to their substantial ranks of U.S. automobile dealerships as they ponder life after bankruptcy, but that isn't stopping a influential program...Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
Sven Gustafson blogs about energy technology for Michigan Business Review. General Motors and Chrysler may taking the meat cleaver to their substantial ranks of U.S. automobile dealerships as they ponder life after bankruptcy, but that isn't stopping a influential program...
Report: Detroit Three automakers best able to profit from aggressive fuel economy standardstag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.30679522009-06-22T15:00:00Z2009-06-22T19:05:48ZDetroit's three automakers are better positioned than their Japanese rivals to reap financial windfalls from more aggressive improvements in fuel economy, according to a study released today by the University of Michigan. The report from U-M's Transportation Research Institute also...Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
Detroit's three automakers are better positioned than their Japanese rivals to reap financial windfalls from more aggressive improvements in fuel economy, according to a study released today by the University of Michigan. The report from U-M's Transportation Research Institute also...
GM, Ford turnarounds have similarities despite stark differencestag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.30400042009-06-18T15:18:05Z2009-06-18T17:20:52ZAP PhotosWill Fritz Henderson and GM be in a better competitive position than Alan Mulally and Ford once GM emerges from bankruptcy? If General Motors Corp. can emulate Chrysler and emerge from bankruptcy with its debt levels dramatically slashed, will...Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
AP PhotosWill Fritz Henderson and GM be in a better competitive position than Alan Mulally and Ford once GM emerges from bankruptcy? If General Motors Corp. can emulate Chrysler and emerge from bankruptcy with its debt levels dramatically slashed, will...
GM will change its corporate culture, but no aspiration to inspire books, Henderson saystag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.30356002009-06-17T23:08:12Z2009-06-17T23:14:40ZGeneral Motors has come under a lot of criticism for an insular corporate culture that is slow to react, is tone deaf to consumer trends and stifles innovation. But it wasn't always that way, as CEO Fritz Henderson reminded reporters...Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
General Motors has come under a lot of criticism for an insular corporate culture that is slow to react, is tone deaf to consumer trends and stifles innovation. But it wasn't always that way, as CEO Fritz Henderson reminded reporters...
Feds need to ensure that U.S. innovation results in domestic manufacturing, tootag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.30149212009-06-15T17:12:52Z2009-06-15T17:26:05ZSven Gustafson blogs about energy technology for Michigan Business Review. The federal government needs an integrated approach to ensure that U.S. companies manufacture the next-generation of the intellectual property developed here, panelists said Monday at the National Summit. That approach...Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
Sven Gustafson blogs about energy technology for Michigan Business Review. The federal government needs an integrated approach to ensure that U.S. companies manufacture the next-generation of the intellectual property developed here, panelists said Monday at the National Summit. That approach...
Longtime GM investor: Media is ignoring plight of stockholders in bankrupt companytag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.29391832009-06-05T17:04:26Z2009-06-10T18:30:15ZSven Gustafson blogs about energy technology for Michigan Business Review. Former shareholders in General Motors Corp., a longtime fixture of the Dow Jones Industrial Average until the automaker's bankruptcy filing earlier this week, are expected to see their investments wiped...Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
Sven Gustafson blogs about energy technology for Michigan Business Review. Former shareholders in General Motors Corp., a longtime fixture of the Dow Jones Industrial Average until the automaker's bankruptcy filing earlier this week, are expected to see their investments wiped...
Telematics industry relying on partnerships, customer demand, to survive auto crisistag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.29221722009-06-03T20:19:37Z2009-06-04T21:38:27ZSven Gustafson blogs about energy technology for Michigan Business Review. The global automotive recession is putting the fast-evolving telematics industry in survival mode, but companies are waiting out the storm by leveraging partnerships on increasingly sophisticated entertainment, navigation and safety...Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
Sven Gustafson blogs about energy technology for Michigan Business Review. The global automotive recession is putting the fast-evolving telematics industry in survival mode, but companies are waiting out the storm by leveraging partnerships on increasingly sophisticated entertainment, navigation and safety...
Michigan panel identifies Thumb, 3 regions along Lake Michigan as best for wind energytag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.29122672009-06-02T19:28:44Z2009-06-02T20:06:57ZMichigan's Thumb and three regions along its west coast hold the best potential for harnessing wind power to help meet new state mandates requiring more renewable energy, a new preliminary report concludes....Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
Michigan's Thumb and three regions along its west coast hold the best potential for harnessing wind power to help meet new state mandates requiring more renewable energy, a new preliminary report concludes....
Pickens: Michigan's economic crisis could benefit outside investmenttag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.28756192009-05-28T23:00:14Z2009-05-28T23:25:05ZT. Boone Pickens, the iconic oil man-turned champion of alternative energy sources, may not know where to put his considerable investment resources in Michigan. But he believes the state is ripe for outside investors in spite of its economic troubles....Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
T. Boone Pickens, the iconic oil man-turned champion of alternative energy sources, may not know where to put his considerable investment resources in Michigan. But he believes the state is ripe for outside investors in spite of its economic troubles....
Construction exec: Michigan has failed to take advantage of crisestag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.28672072009-05-27T23:05:03Z2009-05-27T23:19:15ZIf crisis presents an opportunity, then Michigan has failed miserably, a prominent construction industry executive said....Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
If crisis presents an opportunity, then Michigan has failed miserably, a prominent construction industry executive said....
Michigan advanced battery maker Cobasys on edge of bankruptcytag:blog.mlive.com,2009:/svengustafson//4661.28134152009-05-20T20:15:50Z2009-05-21T15:51:05ZAn advanced battery manufacturer that previously featured in the Michigan's "Upper Hand" economic development advertising campaign appears to be teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. Sven Gustafson blogs about energy technology for Michigan Business Review. Cobasys LLC, based in Oakland...Sven Gustafson | Special to The Ann Arbor Newshttp://connect.mlive.com/user/sveng/index.html
An advanced battery manufacturer that previously featured in the Michigan's "Upper Hand" economic development advertising campaign appears to be teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. Sven Gustafson blogs about energy technology for Michigan Business Review. Cobasys LLC, based in Oakland...