CUB in the News: Opinion | Ex-public service commissioner: Michigan utilities among slowest to restore power
Detroit Free Press Published July 23, 2019 https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/2019/07/23/michigan-slow-to-restore-power/1798363001/
CUB in the News: DTE Still Working To Restore Power To Thousands; Michigan Fourth Worst In Restoration Time
DTE Still Working To Restore Power To Thousands; Michigan Fourth Worst In Restoration Time WWJ News Radio 950 July 23, 2019 https://wwjnewsradio.radio.com/articles/dte-still-working-restore-power-thousands-michigan-fourth-worst-restoration-time DTE Energy rate hikes among biggest in country — as reliability still lags Detroit Free Press By Keith Matheny August 5, 2019 https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/08/05/dte-energy-electric-rate-hikes/1900782001/ Study says Michigan ranks among slowest states at
CUB in the News: Opinion | Speak up before electric bills go up
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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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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
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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Indiana Michigan Power Rate Case U-20359
Return on equity: 9.86% Overall rate of return: 6.08% Revenue requirement increase: $36.4 million Requested return on equity: 10.5% Requested overall rate of return: 6.34% Requested revenue requirement: $58.5 million Here are a few things we think are important for you to know about this case if you are an Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) customer: In January 2020,
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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
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.