Michigan's electric utilities are making steady progress towards their goal of producing 10 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2015.
Michigan utilities are now getting 3.63 percent of their energy from renewable sources, an increase of more than half a percent over the last three years.
"The increase is small but significant," said Judy Palnau with the Michigan Public Service Commission, "because the utilities are at the very beginning of implementing their projects to reach this 10 percent renewable energy standard."
The 10 percent by 2015 goal was signed into law by former Governor Jennifer Granholm in 2008.
According to Palnau, Michigan's utilities are turning to several different sources for renewable energy.
"They are looking at things like wind," she said. "That's the best renewable source that Michigan has available to it. But also things like biomass energy, and solar, as well as some hydro-electric."
The MPSC says the state's two largest utilities, Consumers Energy and Detroit Edison, have plans in place to increase their renewable portfolios drastically by the end of 2012.