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 (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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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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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 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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Detroit Free Press Published July 23, 2019 https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/2019/07/23/michigan-slow-to-restore-power/1798363001/
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
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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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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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