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4/17/09

MLive.com: Alternative energy - Michigans "Right Place" CEO pitches Michigan in Germany - by Mark Sanchez

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Alternative energy - Michigan's "Right Place" CEO pitches Michigan in Germany - by Mark Sanchez

Birgit Klohs, the CEO of The Right Place Inc. in Grand Rapids, Michigan returned home from a three week business trip to Germany this month where she made 23 visits to potential business prospects for West Michigan, and participated in a four-day alternative energy conference in Berlin, where she gave an address on what Michigan has to offer the alternative industry in Germany. The Right Place, the Michigan Economic Development Corp. and Consumers Energy Co. had also staffed a booth at the Berlin alternative energy conference. As the world renowned German wind-energy companies seek to expand beyond Europe and set up shop in America, she used the first-ever German-American Energy Conference to pitch Michigan and the state's manufacturing acumen. The trip, she said, confirms what Klohs has been preaching for some time and a December 2007 economic-development analysis supported: Michigan can carve out a niche role in the U.S. alternative energy industry.

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