DTE Electric Company, Michigan’s largest electric utility, uses a simple rhetorical device to explain the impact of solar and wind energy. But one expert says it misleads people by making renewable energy appear more useful than it is in reducing the need for electricity from conventional fuel sources. DTE Energy, for example, says its Pinnebog wind park in Huron County provides enough energy to power 24,000 homes. But Jason Hayes, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy’s director of environmental policy,
