10,000 Renewable Energy Companies Jobs Potential at Old Michigan Ford Complex

Wixom, Michigan may see a historic site renewed to create renewable energy products–and jobs. The old Ford Motor Co. factory near Detroit, which turned out T-Birds and Lincoln Town Cars and other envies of the highway for over five decades, may be converted into a facility for turning out energy storage batteries, solar panels, and wind turbines. If the requested government funding for the proposal is approved, it will lead to anywhere from 2,800 to about 10,000 green energy jobs in the new “energy park”. Read more about Wind Power at the Heart of Utility Corporate Strategy

Xtreme Power of Austin, Texas, a company that makes integrated smart power management systems for big manufacturers, utilities, and wind farms, is trying to work with Santa Barbara, California’s Clairvoyant Energy, which produces rooftop solar power stations. At the time of this writing they reached a tentative deal with Ford to buy the 320-acre site, pending legislative approval. The companies like Michigan’s Ford plant because of its large electrical grid, existing buildings, rail line, and its close proximity to the major interstate highway I-96. The proposed project could cost up to $1 billion, with the partners at first investing $725 million in order to re-purpose approximately half of the 4.7 million square feet of industrial space at the facility.

The proposed $725 million endeavor which has been put before Michigan state lawmakers, would be like a divine intervention in Michigan, as it is in desperate need of jobs, having the highest unemployment rate of any state in the nation. Michigan is, therefore, looking to the near future of an exploding green economy to get itself back where it was when it was the auto-making capital of the world.

“It’s not just that our city needs it or our county needs it. Our state needs it. We need to look at the new frontier”, says Wixom Mayor Kevin Hinkley. The Wixom Ford Assembly plant was closed in 2007.
Wind Power at the Heart of Utility Corporate Strategy

Wind Power at the Heart of Utility Corporate Strategy

Xtreme Power CEO Carlos Coe also likes the fact that the human resources in Michigan would include a great deal of those who already have a manufacturing background. “They have a good base of knowledge from which to start. What we’re going to teach them to do is build something completely different.”

Xtreme plan to hire 2,500 workers at Wixom between late 2011 and 2014, with an eye toward creating an additional 1,500 supplier-related jobs within or close to the plant after that. Clairvoyant, partnering with Switzerland-based manufacturer Oerlikon Solar, could hire 300 employees late in 2011 and then add an additional 700 later on if business warrants it. At its peak in the mid-1970s, the Ford plant employed 5,500 people. When it closed its doors in 2007 it fired 1,100 people who still worked there.

Clairvoyant actually plans on moving its headquarters to Wixom. Company leaders believe it could make 2.4 million solar panels per year at the facility once production is maximized.

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