The Traverse City Record-Eagle has an AP feature that looks at the raft of alternative energy bills and related measures that have been introduced in recent weeks. Highlights include:

• A bill that would establish a commission to study alternative fuels, particularly those with agricultural roots.


• The
  Senate Technology and Energy Committee has formed a work group drawing
  members from utilities, universities, public interest research groups
  and others to explore long-range planning.


• Bills aimed
  at capitalizing on Michigan's status as one of the nation's windiest
  states and offering tax credits to businesses if they own and operate
  small wind turbines.


• A bill to require the Michigan
  Department of Transportation to help develop a "hydrogen highway" with
  fueling stations on certain roads.


• Bills to offer loans
  to farmers for agricultural energy production, tax incentives to
  gasoline dealers who offer biodiesel or ethanol fuels, and to require
  fuel products in Michigan to have 5% biodiesel content and gasoline to
  have 10% ethanol content.

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