Midwest Core > Michigan
Resources: A measure of total energy production and consumption per capita
Market: The cost of consumption, measured in electricity prices and gasoline taxes
Infrastructure: Capacity to generate and refine energy sources; miles of pipelines
Michigan has more underground natural gas storage capacity—1.1 trillion cubic feet—than any other state in the nation.
Imported coal—much of it brought in by rail from Wyoming and Montana—provides around half of Michigan's net electricity generation.
Production trillion btu
Oil
Gas
Coal
Wind
Solar
Hydro
Biofuel
Nuclear
net energy Production trillion btu
Consumption trillion btu
Oil
Gas
Coal
Renewable
Nuclear
Gasoline Tax total state + federal, 2014
MI
USA
Key Policies
Requires the state's electricity providers to obtain at least 10% of the electricity they sell from renewable energy resources by 2015.
Requires the use of reformulated gasoline in all eight Detroit area counties during the summer ozone season to reduce emissions.
Requires permits and compliance bonds for drilling oil and gas wells. Permit fees are $300. Compliance bonds start at $10,000 and increase for deeper wells.
Electricity net production, trillion btu
MI
USA