Detroit Free Press By Keith Matheny April 4, 2020 https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/04/04/dte-proposed-gas-rate-hike-called-excessive-attorney-general/2944254001/
Public comments have closed on the Upper Peninsula Energy Task Force’s draft report on how to avoid price spikes in propane used across the UP for heating, especially in the case of a Line 5 shutdown. (Links to our previous blog posts are here, here, here, here and the first here. All of the public comments submitted on draft report will be
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WLUC TV6 By Shawn Householder April 1, 2020 https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/content/news/UP-Energy-Task-Force-seeks-public-comment-on-future-of-propane–569292241.html
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Percentage of Households with Propane, Draft of “Analysis of Propane Supply Alternatives for Michigan,” Public Sector Consultants, March 2020 The developing coronavirus crisis shows how everyday life can be upended by low-probability events. In energy, people are always talking about the importance of “resiliency.” Resiliency essentially means a system’s ability to respond to many different
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This report explores practical solutions to the ongoing problem of poor electric reliability for Michigan utility customers. It evaluates several tools utility regulators can implement to incentivize electric utilities to work to improve their management of the distribution grid for the benefit of customers.
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Energy News Network By Andy Balaskovitz March 10, 2020 https://energynews.us/2020/03/10/midwest/michigans-electricity-resource-planning-law-is-pushing-utilities-on-clean-energy/
Beware Of So-Called Detroit Activists Pocketing DTE Energy Donations Deadline Detroit By Darrell Dawsey January 14, 2020 https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/24129/dawsey_beware_of_so-called_activists_pocketing_donations_from_dte_energy_other_utilities *********** Publicly owned utilities ‘not a panacea’ but can produce customer benefits Energy News Network By Tom Perkins https://energynews.us/2019/12/16/west/publicly-owned-utilities-not-a-panacea-but-can-produce-customer-benefits/ *********** Semco reaches rate hike settlement with state The Mining Journal By Lisa Bowers December 12, 2020 https://www.miningjournal.net/news/front-page-news/2019/12/semco-reaches-rate-hike-settlement-with-state/
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Last summer the Citizens Utility Board of Michigan wrote about how a utility’s integrated resource plan (IRP) is an important roadmap for the future of the business and its customers. DTE’s long-term plan, proposed last year, could force its 2.2 million customers in southeast Michigan to pay millions on their electric bills for power plants that may
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Approved return on equity: 9.9% (requested by utility: 10.5%) Approved overall rate of return: 5.67% (requested by utility: 5.9%) Approved revenue requirement increase: $100 million (requested by utility: $244 million) Approved residential class rate increase: 8.3% (requested by utility: 14%) Events: The Citizens Utility Board (CUB) of Michigan is an intervenor in this case. In
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The debate over the future of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline has been one of the biggest energy and environmental stories for Michigan over the past couple years. The Line 5 controversy was one of the contributing factors in Gov. Whitmer’s decision last summer to form the Upper Peninsula Energy Task Force to examine how
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