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Energy Services is committed to promoting healthy communities, economic growth, and environmental sustainability through energy efficiency and renewable energy. We support individuals, businesses, and communities by providing educational awareness as well as technical, financial, and referral assistance. Energy Services offers a variety of programs each year to catalyze growth and jumpstart Michigan entities in reaching their own energy goals.

In a unique project, EGLE and University of Michigan's Graham Sustainability Institute have developed the Michigan Zoning Database, a searchable source of information of municipal ordinances.
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Michigan Zoning Database
Planning and zoning for renewable energy siting is an important step toward creating stronger, more resilient communities. The Michigan Zoning Database is a free resource for elected officials, government employees, planners, developers, and Michigan residents.
Michigan Energy Codes Compliance Collaborative
The Michigan Energy Codes Compliance Collaborative is comprised of builders, contractors, code officials, state agencies, energy raters, utilities, and energy advocates with the goal to identify gaps, issues, and opportunities related to compliance with the current Michigan Energy Code.
Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
Energy Services is working with businesses, townships, counties, cities and villages in the state to help them become EV ready.
Plugging Into Storage Symposium
Energy Services, at the request of the state Legislature, organized a collaborative discussion with state and national stakeholders on the potential to integrate energy storage into Michigan’s electric market.

Energy Services has State and Federal funding available for various energy related projects, such as energy efficiency upgrades and renewable energy installations (non-residential), clean technology development, EV charger installations, as well as funding for research and reports. Applications and Requests for Proposals (RFP) are available throughout the year.
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Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Roadmap
The Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Roadmap for Michigan is a collaborative effort among state and regional partners to optimize CHP adoption based on significant stakeholder input. The overall project goal was to create a multifaceted, cohesive, replicable program to develop and deploy consensus based solutions for accelerating CHP deployment in Michigan.
Agriculture and Rural Communities Energy Roadmap
Energy Services has initiated a project to analyze the effectiveness of current energy policies and programs for Michigan's agriculture and rural communities. The purpose of the project is to create an agriculture and rural communities energy roadmap to inform policy makers and program implementers of recommended policies and programs that encourage energy efficiency and renewable energy.
UP Energy Waste Reduction Roadmap
The UP Energy Waste Reduction Roadmap is designed as a starting point for conversations between U.P. stakeholders, including utilities, program implementers, local government representatives, businesses, residents, and others, to identify ways to increase potential benefits of EWR program portfolios by capturing delivery efficiencies, expanding the reach of existing and future programs, and leveraging the local EWR investments.

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