Some advantages of wind energy for the Upper Thumb
Building on our role as Michigan's leader in wind energy production:
- Creates jobs for our workers.
- Revitalizes our communities by attracting major private investment.
- Provides a new way to jumpstart our local economy.
- Allows us to rely on ourselves, not outsiders, for more of our energy needs.
- Supplies extra income for farmers and landowners who lease their land.
- Gives schools and local governments additional tax revenue to help improve and expand services for residents.
- Preserves land for agricultural use.
- Prevents local jobs and money from being sent to other states or overseas.
- Provides a training ground to prepare students for the many "green-collar" jobs available in the growing renewable energy industry.
- Attracts researchers, educators and tourists who want to learn more about how wind farms operate.
- Enables Michigan to put its manufacturing base to work for a new purpose – building wind turbine components.
- Positions the Upper Thumb to become a worldwide supplier of components and wind turbines, establishing a new industry that will put our residents to work and revitalize our local economy.
- Upgrades the electric grid, giving businesses and residents access to a stable source of power.
- Generates clean, safe electricity without polluting the air or water.
- Uses a source of energy that will never be depleted.