<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e897bc9c-b70c-4f61-8cb7-cb04138cbfd4/DEE4552F-12C3-49A2-A7CD-F20FC617004A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/ford-converting-old-auto-plant-massive-renewable-energy-park" href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/ford-converting-old-auto-plant-massive-renewable-energy-park" style="font-size: 11px;">www.fastcompany.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/ford-converting-old-auto-plant-massive-renewable-energy-park"><H2 id="hdr_article-headline"> Ford Converting Old Auto Plant Into Massive Renewable Energy Park </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/ford-converting-old-auto-plant-massive-renewable-energy-park"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.fastcompany.com/img/49DEE296-3F62-4DA2-ABCB-676EA966665D" alt="wixom" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/ford-converting-old-auto-plant-massive-renewable-energy-park"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.fastcompany.com/img/8F598EE5-7CE8-4349-999A-B02B0F6A8A8F" alt="Wixom, Michigan" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/ford-converting-old-auto-plant-massive-renewable-energy-park"><P>We <A target="_blank" href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/sign-times-ford-transforming-suv-assembly-plant-small-car-plant">reported</A> a few months ago that Ford planned to spend $550 million to retool a Michigan SUV plant into a small car plant. Now Ford is at it again, announcing plans to turn the defunct Wixom Assembly Plant in Wixom, MI into a massive renewable energy plant.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/ford-converting-old-auto-plant-massive-renewable-energy-park"><P><A target="_blank" href="http://www.xtremepowerinc.com/">Xtreme Power</A> and <A target="_blank" href="http://clairvoyantenergy.com/">Clairvoyant Energy</A> have put down an initial investment of over $725 million to turn half of the plant's 320-acre site and 4.7 million square feet of building space into a renewable energy production park. Clairvoyant will produce at least 2.5 million solar panels each year in the space--enough to displace a coal plant--while Xtreme will produce large-scale solar and wind power storage systems. Xtreme and Clairvoyant hope to lease leftover space to other green energy companies.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DEE4552F-12C3-49A2-A7CD-F20FC617004A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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