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Core Issue<\/p>

Energy<\/h1><\/div>

The Midwest boasts tremendous wind potential, a burgeoning biofuels industry, vast coal reserves with extensive geological formations for storing carbon and mature oil reserves that can expand production with enhanced oil recovery. It also has a strong manufacturing sector to produce infrastructure and components for the renewable energy industry. This provides Midwestern states with an enormous potential for energy savings through more efficient technologies and practices.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

America continues to be the largest manufacturer in the world, with the Midwest contributing significantly toward the country’s output. New energy industries in the Midwest are emerging as focal points for job creation and retention. A number of recent studies suggest that new energy industries can create as many as 1.2 million jobs over the next decade, with as much as a third of those in high-wage, high-skill manufacturing and construction jobs.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The MGA supports current efforts in Grid Security and Modernization and electric transmission, as well as previous efforts in transportation fuels, energy efficiency and productivity, and CCS. Much of the region’s work has been through collaboration of diverse stakeholder groups to achieve practical, workable solutions. A list of organizations that have been involved in these processes can be found here<\/a>. To read their feedback on the MGA process, click here<\/a>.

n order to highlight the region\u2019s robust biofuels industry, as well as the opportunities to increase industrial energy productivity, the MGA released the following video<\/em>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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