Governor wants solar power incentives. Hemlock's $1 billion expansion prompts Granholm to urge alternative energy use.

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"We want to re-brand Michigan as the alternative energy capital of the world," Granholm said.

To accomplish that, she said, Michigan not only must be home to companies such as Hemlock and Auburn Hills-based United Solar Ovonic, the state's citizens must become larger consumers of alternative energies.

"What we need to do is take a hard policy look at providing incentives for the use of these solar panels in Michigan," Granholm told The Detroit News. "In Germany they created 170,000 jobs by changing the incentives for the use of wind and solar. We ought to be doing the same thing in Michigan."
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