A Clean Energy Future
Built in Michigan
Lower energy costs. Modern infrastructure.
Strategic manufacturing
Michigan families and businesses are facing rising utility bills, aging infrastructure, and growing demand on the electric grid.
The Clean Energy Plan focuses on modernizing energy systems, strengthening domestic supply chains, and ensuring that the transition to cleaner power lowers long-term costs while creating high-quality jobs across Michigan.
Energy Powers Every Part of Our Economy
Affordable, reliable energy is not just an environmental issue — it is an economic foundation.
Energy costs shape everything from housing affordability and manufacturing competitiveness to hospital operating budgets and food prices. When energy becomes unstable or expensive, the entire economy becomes more fragile.
A Michigan Energy Independence Plan would lower long-term costs, strengthen grid reliability, and create the conditions for sustained job growth across industries.
Clean, modern energy is not only about climate responsibility — it is about economic security.
Modern Energy Systems for a Competitive Michigan
Electric grids built for the past century are under pressure from new demand, extreme weather risks, and industrial transformation.
Strategic investment in infrastructure, generation capacity, and storage can improve reliability while protecting ratepayers from volatile fuel markets and future price shocks.
Michigan has the opportunity to lead this transition in a way that strengthens communities and expands economic opportunity.
Building a Smarter, Stronger Grid
The Clean Energy Plan would prioritize modernization of transmission and distribution infrastructure to improve resilience and reduce system inefficiencies.
Key investments include:
• advanced transmission upgrades
• distributed energy integration
• regional grid coordination
• battery storage deployment
• peak demand management programs
Create a multi-year grid modernization program supported by public financing tools and coordinated infrastructure planning.
The Policy
Build the Clean Energy
Supply Chain in Michigan
Michigan cannot achieve true energy independence if we rely on imported components for wind, solar, and battery systems.
Global trade disruptions and tariffs on key materials have increased costs and slowed deployment of renewable infrastructure.
Michigan should lead in reshoring clean energy manufacturing — building turbines, solar panels, batteries, grid components, and advanced materials here at home.
This approach would lower long-term energy costs, strengthen national security, and create thousands of high-quality jobs across the state.
Michigan Clean Manufacturing Initiative
Use public investment, workforce partnerships, and targeted procurement rules to ensure renewable energy projects use domestically manufactured components wherever possible.
The Policy
Manufacturing the Clean Energy Economy
Michigan can support domestic production of renewable-energy components and grid equipment to strengthen supply chain security and create high-skill manufacturing jobs.
Priority sectors include:
• turbine component manufacturing
• solar panel and inverter production
• battery cell and component assembly
• transformer and grid equipment manufacturing
Support industrial site readiness, workforce training, and investment incentives tied to job quality and domestic production targets.
The Policy
Lower Costs Through
Smart Investment
Expanding renewable generation and improving system efficiency can reduce long-term operating costs compared to continued reliance on volatile fossil fuel markets.
Energy efficiency programs, demand management incentives, and diversified generation portfolios help stabilize bills while improving reliability.
Traditional Model
• fuel price volatility
• higher maintenance costs
• outage risk
• long-term rate pressure
Modern Energy Model
• stable generation costs
• diversified supply
• improved resilience
• predictable rates
Powering Advanced Industry
Reliable, affordable energy is essential for the industries that will shape Michigan’s future.
That includes semiconductor fabrication and packaging, battery and grid equipment manufacturing, robotics, advanced automation, data infrastructure, and clean-energy component production.
Right now, supply chain shocks, grid constraints, and rising energy costs make it harder for Michigan to compete for these facilities and the jobs that come with them.
The Michigan Energy Independence Plan will build the power, transmission, storage, and industrial infrastructure needed to make Michigan the best place in America to build the next generation of advanced manufacturing.
By modernizing the grid and lowering long-term energy costs, Michigan can compete to become:
the semiconductor capital of America
a national hub for robotics and advanced automation
a leader in battery, grid, and clean-energy manufacturing
a stronger center for domestic industrial supply chains
Energy policy is industrial policy. If Michigan wants to lead in semiconductors, robotics, and advanced manufacturing, Michigan needs an energy system built to support that growth.
Michigan will build the energy system needed to lead in semiconductors, robotics, and advanced manufacturing.
The Policy
Public Investment Must Deliver Public Return
Public investment should not be a one-way subsidy.
When Michigan helps finance major industrial and energy projects, the public should share in the value those projects create.
That means state support can be tied to public-return tools such as revenue-sharing agreements, profit participation, equity stakes, warrants, or other repayment structures that protect taxpayers and build long-term public wealth.
Instead of handing over public dollars with no lasting return, Michigan can use public-private partnerships that create jobs now while also generating future revenue for the state.
Those returns can help fund:
grid modernization
road and freight infrastructure
workforce development
site readiness
research partnerships
future industrial investment
Public support should come with clear expectations.
Companies receiving major public backing should meet standards for job creation, wage quality, domestic production, community benefit, and long-term investment in Michigan.
If a project succeeds because the public helped make it possible, the public should share in the upside.
Michigan taxpayers should not carry all the risk while private investors take all the reward.
When public dollars help build private wealth, the public should share in the return.
The Policy
Strong Standards, Clear Rules
Michigan can grow its energy economy without sacrificing public health, clean water, or community trust.
Any major energy, transmission, storage, refining, or advanced-materials project supported under this plan will be required to meet strong public standards.
That includes:
strong water and environmental protections
transparent permitting and public reporting
enforceable safety requirements
independent oversight and compliance monitoring
community benefit expectations for large projects
Michigan does not have to choose between economic growth and responsible standards. We can build faster, build smarter, and protect the public at the same time.
Energy projects receiving public support will be held to strong safety, transparency, and environmental standards.
The Policy
Coordinated State Leadership
Michigan needs a plan that brings energy policy, industrial strategy, workforce development, and infrastructure planning together.
Too often, projects are slowed by fragmented decision-making, unclear priorities, and poor coordination between agencies.
The Energy Independence Plan will align:
grid and transmission planning
manufacturing and site-readiness strategy
workforce and apprenticeship pipelines
public financing tools
permitting and regulatory modernization
accountability and performance tracking
This coordination helps projects move faster, lowers waste, and ensures that public investment produces real long-term value.
Michigan will coordinate energy, workforce, infrastructure, and industrial policy under one long-term strategy.
The Policy
Lower energy costs. Stronger industry. A future built in Michigan.
Smart investment today can stabilize utility bills, strengthen energy security, and position Michigan to lead in advanced manufacturing and clean power.
How We Get Results Fast
Phase 1 — Lower Costs, Modernize Infrastructure, and Launch Domestic Capacity
Years 1–2
Michigan begins with the strongest near-term actions:
launch grid modernization projects that improve reliability and reduce waste
establish ratepayer protections and long-term affordability tools
begin road, freight, and utility upgrades tied to industrial competitiveness
prepare industrial sites for new manufacturing and energy projects
launch domestic clean-energy and semiconductor supply chain initiatives
apply high-road job standards to publicly supported projects
create public-return rules so taxpayers share in the upside of major investments
establish a single coordinated implementation structure across agencies
What people feel first:
fewer reliability problems and a stronger grid
lower long-term pressure on utility bills
faster industrial site readiness for new jobs and investment
visible proof that public money is being tied to jobs, production, and accountability
Phase 2 — Build Michigan’s Clean Energy and Advanced Manufacturing Base
Years 2–4
Once the first round of upgrades and policy tools is in place, Michigan expands into larger industrial buildout:
scale domestic clean-energy component manufacturing
expand semiconductor and advanced electronics site development
strengthen battery, storage, and grid equipment supply chains
align workforce training, apprenticeships, and technical education with project demand
deepen public-private partnerships tied to domestic production and job quality
expand transmission, storage, and regional coordination capacity
What this adds:
more good-paying jobs in manufacturing and construction
stronger in-state supply chains
less dependence on volatile outside markets
greater ability to attract strategic private investment
Phase 3 — Secure Long-Term Energy Independence and Industrial Strength
Years 4+
Michigan then builds this into a durable long-term economic platform:
expand Michigan-based production in key energy and technology sectors
strengthen advanced materials, research, and supplier ecosystems
maintain long-term affordability and public-return standards
integrate energy, industry, infrastructure, and workforce planning more fully
publish regular public results on cost, reliability, jobs, and supply security
Long-term result:
Michigan builds a stronger grid, lower long-term energy cost pressure, and a durable clean-energy and advanced manufacturing economy rooted in domestic production.
Michigan will implement this plan in phases, but the first phase should be ambitious.
The goal of the initial omnibus is to deliver visible improvements early, not years from now. That means combining energy affordability, grid upgrades, infrastructure modernization, industrial site readiness, domestic supply chain policy, and strong job standards into one coordinated first move.
The first phase focuses on the fastest wins: improving reliability, lowering long-term cost pressure, preparing sites for new investment, strengthening domestic clean-energy and semiconductor supply chains, and making sure public investment creates public value.
Later phases expand manufacturing capacity, workforce pipelines, advanced materials development, and long-term supply security.
The purpose is simple: deliver early wins, build public confidence, and create the foundation for larger structural change.
Move fast on the first phase so Michigan families and businesses see lower costs, stronger infrastructure, and real economic progress early.
The Policy
The Legislative Package
The Michigan Energy Independence Plan would be enacted through a coordinated legislative package designed to deliver immediate relief, modernize critical infrastructure, and build long-term economic strength.
Where possible, Michigan should move these reforms together in an initial omnibus so the state can lower costs, speed implementation, and align energy, manufacturing, infrastructure, and workforce policy from the start.
The first legislative package would focus on the areas where Michigan can deliver the fastest and most visible gains:
lowering long-term utility costs
modernizing the electric grid
fixing roads and freight infrastructure that industry depends on
preparing industrial sites for new investment
expanding clean-energy and advanced manufacturing capacity
strengthening domestic supply chains, including semiconductors
tying public support to job quality, worker standards, and public return
Later legislation would build on that foundation by expanding supply-chain security, workforce development, distributed energy tools, environmental safeguards, and public-private partnership capacity.
This plan is designed to move quickly where families and businesses need relief now — while also building the physical and industrial systems Michigan will need for the next generation.
Pass a strong first-phase package that lowers costs, modernizes infrastructure, and builds Michigan’s energy and manufacturing future at the same time.
The Policy
How Energy Independence Fits into the Michigan Reform Plan
The Michigan Energy Independence Plan is part of the broader Michigan Reform Plan to lower costs, rebuild public capacity, and strengthen long-term economic security.
By reducing energy costs, modernizing infrastructure, and building domestic supply chains, this plan supports housing affordability, industrial renewal, healthcare affordability, and statewide economic growth.
It also connects directly to Michigan’s manufacturing future by supporting semiconductor production, advanced equipment manufacturing, grid technology, battery systems, and other strategic industries.
In the Michigan Reform Plan, energy policy is not separate from economic policy. It is one of the foundations of it.
Lower-cost, reliable energy helps power every other part of the Michigan Reform Plan.
The Policy
Policy Details
For readers interested in the full legislative framework, the proposed statutory language for this policy is available below.
These documents outline how the proposal could be implemented in Michigan law and provide a more detailed view of the policy design.
The policy frameworks will continue to be refined with input from policy experts, healthcare providers, educators, and community leaders across Michigan.
Help Build Michigan’s Clean Energy Future
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If you believe Michigan should lower utility costs, modernize infrastructure, and create good-paying jobs through clean energy leadership, join our campaign.
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