Testimony

In testimony recently filed with the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) on behalf of the Citizens Utility Board (CUB) of Michigan, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the National Housing Trust, expert witness Roger Colton, a consultant on utility issues for low-income customers, lays out in detail what should be done to help get […]

To justify its proposed increase in rate base, Consumers Energy “has made much of the need to replace old equipment at an accelerated rate,” according to testimony in the Consumers Energy rate case from 5 Lakes Energy Managing Partner Douglas Jester (also sponsored by CUB, MEC, NRDC and the Sierra Club). But from the standpoint

While it may seem at first glance that more money will mean better grid performance, that has not been historically true. Research by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has “found no correlation between investor-owned utility distribution capital spending increases and reliability improvement the following year,” Wired Group President Paul Alvarez said in testimony filed in