Feb. 22, 2012

Municipalities and nonprofit organizations from southeast Michigan will be sharing the latest environmental infrastructure know-how this week at a Michigan Green Communities workshop organized by an SNRE master's project team. The workshop will provide an update to the Michigan Green Communities Challenge, a reporting mechanism for communities to track sustainability activity and share information with one another. The Economic Energy Analysis tool make its debut at the workshop.

The tool is "a framework and a model for different communities to assess their baseline energy consumption patterns," said Courtney Lee, an SNRE student and one of five members of the "Sustainable Michigan Cities Network" master's project team.The tool uses modeling to estimate how much a community is spending on energy imports and how much energy is being lost during transmission.

The workshop is Friday, Feb. 24, at NextEnergy in Detroit, and is the third in a series offered around the state. Others were in Traverse City and Muskegon.

The master's project adviser is Assistant Professor Josh Newell.

Read more about the master's project: http://snre.umich.edu/current_students/masters_projects/sustainable_mich...

Read more about the workshop: http://www.concentratemedia.com/devnews/michigangreencommunitiesworkshop...