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Upper Peninsula Task Force Examines Potential Solutions to Region’s Energy Shortages

The Upper Peninsula (UP) Energy Task Force, formed in June by an order from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, has spent its first few meetings studying the lay of the land of the Upper Peninsula. Now, the Task Force is in its very early stages of determining the potential paths forward for the UP’s energy problems. The goal is to help the region […]

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CUB in the News: Amid energy transition in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, what is solar’s role?

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https://energynews.us/2019/09/26/midwest/amid-energy-transition-in-michigans-upper-peninsula-what-is-solars-role/ Energy News Network By Andy Balaskovitz

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CUB in the News: My Take: SEMCO needs fairer way to cover costs

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https://www.hollandsentinel.com/opinion/20190922/my-take-semco-needs-fairer-way-to-cover-costs Holland Sentinel By Robert Nelson, CUB President Also appeared in: Coldwater Daily Reporter: https://www.thedailyreporter.com/opinion/20190922/my-take-semco-needs-fairer-way-to-cover-costs Hillsdale Daily News: https://www.hillsdale.net/opinion/20190922/my-take-semco-needs-fairer-way-to-cover-costs?template=ampart The Monroe News: https://www.monroenews.com/opinion/20190922/my-take-semco-needs-fairer-way-to-cover-costs Ionia Sentinel-Standard: https://www.sentinel-standard.com/opinion/20190922/my-take-semco-needs-fairer-way-to-cover-costs Sturgis Journal: https://www.sturgisjournal.com/opinion/20190922/my-take-semco-needs-fairer-way-to-cover-costs The Sault News: https://www.sooeveningnews.com/opinion/20190922/my-take-semco-needs-fairer-way-to-cover-costs Bedford Now: https://www.bedfordnow.com/opinion/20190922/my-take-semco-needs-fairer-way-to-cover-costs

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Final Statewide Energy Assessment Has Good Ambitions But Will Require Quick Action

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 12, 2019 With the final Statewide Energy Assessment (SEA), the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) has acted promptly in response to fuel reliability concerns from this past winter. The Citizens Utility Board of Michigan has followed this process closely, as residential ratepayers need adequate protection from service outages and price spikes.

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Consumers Energy: Trying to Adapt to the Quickly-Changing Energy Landscape

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Last year, a survey found that 71% of utility company leaders believe that a “utility death spiral” is a real possibility without regulatory or other changes. The idea of a “death spiral” has been around for several years and broadly lays out a scenario in which customer adoption of distributed energy technologies that allow customers to use

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DTE Energy’s Long-Range Plan Fails Michigan Ratepayers

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For decades, many states have required their energy utilities to regularly submit long-term plans laying out what the utilities believe is the best way to provide reliable and cost-effective service to their customers. Known as “integrated resource plans” or IRPs, this planning process forces the utility to show what investments and strategies it will make

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Indiana Michigan Power’s Integrated Resource Plan

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Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) serves 129,000 Michigan customers in the southwestern part of the state, although most of its nearly 600,000 customers are in Indiana. The integrated resource plan (I&M) is intended to be a document that assesses various options to cost-effectively serve the electricity needs of customers over the next 20 years. This case

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UP Energy Task Force 2nd Meeting Does a Deep Dive into Propane

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The Upper Peninsula Energy Task Force’s second meeting (read our blog post about the first) was held in St. Ignace, Mich., on Aug. 5, just a stone’s throw from the Mackinac Bridge and the Straits of Mackinac. Under those waters is the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline, whose cloudy future is one of the big reasons Gov. Whitmer created the

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CUB of Michigan’s Comments on the MPSC Statewide Energy Assessment

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Today, the Citizens Utility Board of Michigan filed the following comments on the Michigan Public Service Commission’s Statewide Energy Assessment (SEA). For background, here is what the MPSC’s website says about the SEA: MPSC Statewide Energy Assessment (SEA) Michigan experienced historically extreme cold weather from January 29, 2019 to February 1, 2019 due to a polar vortex.

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Northern States Power Co. – Wisconsin Integrated Resource Plan U-20599

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Northern States Power Company-Wisconsin serves electric and natural gas customers in the western portion of the Upper Peninsula that borders Wisconsin. It is owned by Xcel Energy, a large publicly-traded company headquartered in Minneapolis. The integrated resource plan (IRP) is intended to be a document that assesses various options to cost-effectively serve the electricity needs

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