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Why the UP Matters: Special Task Force on Upper Peninsula Energy Holds Its First Meeting

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan has just over 300,000 people. That makes the entire peninsula less populated than each of the six largest counties in the Lower Peninsula. Most of the UP is closer to Wisconsin than to Lansing or Detroit. So why should those of us that live south of the Mackinac Bridge care

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DTE Electric Rate Case U-20561

Approved return on equity: 9.9% Approved overall rate of return: 5.46% Approved revenue requirement increase: $188.285 million Requested return on equity: 10.5% Requested overall rate of return: 5.73% Requested revenue requirement: $351 million Latest News The MPSC approved DTE’s rate increase on May 8, 2020, but with major revisions of DTE’s original request: The revenue to be collected from customers was cut from

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Citizens Utility Board of Michigan Executive Director Amy Bandyk speaks at the Grand Rapids Clean Energy Forum on June 28, 2019. Charlotte Jameson, Michigan Environmental Council energy policy & legislative affairs director and board member for CUB of Michigan, is seated to Amy’s left, and Environmental Policy & Law Center Senior Attorney Margrethe Kearney is seated to Amy’s right.

How You Can Improve Utilities in Michigan – A Look at the 2019 Grand Rapids Clean Energy Forum

The life of an energy consumer can feel powerless. Your rates go up every year. Your monthly bill is determined by an indecipherable, dizzyingly complicated tariff. You endure long hold times and leave ignored messages when you contact your utility. You constantly hear about how energy use is killing the planet and that fixing climate

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Members of the public at a hearing

Members of the Public Make Their Voices Heard On DTE Energy’s Long-term Resource Plan

DTE Energy is the only choice of electricity provider for the vast majority of its 2.2 million customers across Southeast Michigan. So it makes sense that so many residents of the area crowded a conference room in downtown Detroit on June 20 for a public forum held by the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) regarding

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Businesses, clean energy and ratepayer advocates demand state regulators support affordable, clean energy

DTE’s long-term energy plan draws widespread criticism at Detroit public hearing DETROIT – Clean energy businesses, ratepayer advocacy organizations, conservation leaders and more today called on the Michigan Public Service Commission to ensure DTE Energy makes clean, renewable energy a focus of its long-term energy plan. “Solar and other clean energy options can affordably and

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Electrical lines in a neighborhood

Upper Peninsula Energy Issues Are In a State of Flux, and the Future of the U.P.’s Utility Customers Is At Stake

The fate of utility customers in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is approaching a crossroads. Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline, which supplies a significant amount of U.P. customers’ liquid propane for heating, is facing possible shutdown as the result of a dispute over the viability of the line. Meanwhile, solar power has been taking off in the U.P.

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SEMCO Gas Rate Case U-20479

Approved return on equity: 9.87% Requested return on equity: 10.5% Approved revenue requirement increase: $19.9 million Requested revenue requirement increase: $38.1 million Here are a few things we think are important for you to know about this case if you are a SEMCO customer: SEMCO had requested a 14% increase in residential rates, but residential rates will instead increase

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