Approved return on equity: 9.9% Approved overall rate of return: 5.41% Approved revenue requirement increase: $84.17 million Approved residential rate increase: 9.75% Requested return on equity: 10.25% Requested overall rate of return: 5.59% Requested revenue requirement increase: $157 million Requested residential rate increase: 11.1% Time period: Jan. 1 – Dec. 31, 2022 Here are a few things we think are important […]
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We are about a year into COVID-19 and the pandemic, and while the toll it is having on the economy is as bad as ever, the protections for ratepayers have not gotten stronger in response. Quite the contrary—they are more meager than at the outset of the pandemic, when Michigan utilities like DTE and Consumers
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Approved return on equity: 9.9% Approved overall rate of return: 5.42% Approved revenue requirement increase: $30.56 million Approved residential class rate increase: <1% Requested return on equity: 10.25% Requested overall rate of return: 5.56% Requested revenue requirement: $388 million Requested residential class rate increase: 8.8% Time period: Nov 1, 2022 – Oct. 31, 2023 Events: In a Nov. 19 order, the
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It’s been about a year and a half since Michigan’s “wake-up call” moment for electric reliability: a summer 2019 day of devastating thunderstorms that led to catastrophic losses of power across the service territories of DTE and Consumers Energy. The incident focused attention on the Michigan utilities’ generally poor performance when dealing with power outages
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The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) on Dec. 17 ordered that Consumers Energy can raise rates on its electric customers by around $100 million for 2021, representing a nearly 60% cut of the utility’s original rate hike request. The MPSC’s order is broadly in line with a proposed decision by an administrative law judge that
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We are entering a winter that is particularly bleak due to the continuing pandemic. Access to home heating services is more important than ever, so it is good news that an additional $54.5 million in funding will be available for heating assistance for low-income customers, as the Michigan Public Service Commission and the Michigan Department
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The 2020 report ranks Michigan utilities on measures of reliability, affordability and environmental impact.
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A word that comes up frequently in discussions about the future of energy in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is “opportunity.” “Clean energy is a big opportunity for the Upper Peninsula,” Bryan Newland, the tribal chairman of the Bay Mills Indian Community in the eastern end of the UP, said in his opening remarks at the UP
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Consumers Energy’s pending request to increase its revenue, which would amount to one of the biggest rate hikes from the utility in years, should be slashed over 56%, an administrative law judge (ALJ) recommended to the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) last week. If that cut is approved by the MPSC, the rate increase on
