Act No. 233 of the Public Acts of 2023 supersedes the wishes of local communities.

This new law, effective November 2024, forces local communities to go through the state when it comes to the zoning authority of utility-scale wind and solar projects.


To "fast-track" the development of renewable energy projects, local voices were shut out of the conversation. The ability to decide where corporations place utilities like wind turbines, solar farms, and battery storage facilities should be decided by our own communities that we know best.

Did You Know?

The base of supporters for local control is strongly bipartisan, and often led by farmers and environmentalists.

85% of Democrats
91% of Republicans
84% of Independents
support local control of permitting for utility-scale renewable energy.


This is also bigger than cities like Grand Ledge,

Eaton Rapids, Brighton, Ludington, or Farmington.

Wind turbines can be as tall as 816 feet tall. This is 90 feet taller than the Renaissance Center in Detroit.

Michigan also has 1,200 miles of interstate ROW that can host thousands of acres of solar developments with no impact on farm ground or our neighborhoods and communities.


Michigan alone has 2 million roofs and 77% of them can host solar with a potential of 42.3 million MWh per year.

Michigan has 42,912 brownfield sites covering tens of thousands of acres. Solar can go there with no farmland impact. 

Proponents of solar argue it is clean energy and more green. However...


They neglect to include the mining, manufacturing, transportation, installation and maintenance and overlook the production and manufacturing of the panels causes waste and emissions.


The tons of waste that are generated by solar panels and the amounts in our landfills are also not talked about.



Local control actually increases state wind capacity.

Under local control, Michigan has installed nearly twice as much wind capacity as Ohio and Wisconsin combined with their state-controlled siting. And Michigan has installed nearly identical amounts of solar as Wisconsin and Ohio. Developers exaggerate the roadblock local control presents.   

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