Michigan Climate Change Index

Number of energy efficiency jobs in Michigan: over 84,000
Number of energy efficiency businesses in Michigan: over 16,800
Number of solar jobs in Michigan: over 4,000
Number of homes that could be powered by solar production in Michigan: over 25,000
Number of solar businesses in Michigan: 237
Number of Michiganders working in clean energy transmission, distribution and storage: over 36,000
Number of wind industry manufacturing facilities in Michigan: 27
Number of jobs supported by wind energy in Michigan: nearly 5,000
Number of wind turbines in Michigan: over 1,100
Number of megawatts of wind capacity installed in Michigan: 2,190
Number of homes that could have been powered by wind energy in Michigan in 2019: over 530,000
Number of gallons of water consumption saved by wind energy generation in Michigan in 2019: 2.4 billion
Number of metric tons of CO2 emissions saved by wind power generation in Michigan in 2019: 4.4 million

Number of Michiganders who are especially vulnerable to extreme heat: over 270,000
Number of extreme weather events that caused over $1 billion in economic losses in Michigan from 2007-2016: 12
Number of people killed by extreme weather in Michigan in 2018: 7
Number of acres consumed by wildfires in 2018 in Michigan: over 3,700
Number of Michiganders at an elevated risk of inland flooding: nearly 340,000

Percentage of Michiganders that believe climate change was happening in 2018: 68%
Percentage of Michiganders that believe climate change is caused mostly by human activities in 2018: 57%
Percentage of Michiganders worried about climate change: 58%
Percentage of Michiganders who support setting carbon pollution limits on existing coal-fired power plants: 71%

MICHIGAN CLIMATE CHANGE INDEX