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This Summer in Upper Peninsula Energy Issues: Task Force Widens Its Scope

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The Upper Peninsula Energy Task Force turned its attention in May and June meetings to studying the grid that delivers electricity to homes and businesses in the UP – the power generation assets (power plants, etc.) and the transmission and distribution lines that crisscross the peninsula. This work encompasses the second charge in Executive Order 2019-14 from

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State Issues Additional Aid for Low-Income Utility Customers – Is It Enough?

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Earlier this week the Michigan state government announced measures that will help low-income ratepayers deal with the imminent removal of certain protections utilities have been offering since the pandemic began in March. This move will mitigate at least some of the economic harm when, as CUB blogged about last month, a “backlog” of unpaid bills built up over this

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New Study Suggests the Way DTE and Consumers Energy Run Michigan Coal Plants Is Costing Ratepayers

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The Union of Concerned Scientists has a new study that argues that the incredibly complex wholesale electricity markets in the U.S. have loopholes that are creating heavy costs for ratepayers of regulated electric utilities like DTE Energy and Consumers Energy. This is a very complicated issue that is indecipherable for many people (as is common in utility manners). But

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