Approved return on equity: 9.9%
Approved overall rate of return: 5.62%
Approved revenue requirement increase: $31.7 million
Approved residential class rate increase: 1.1%
Requested return on equity: 10.5%
Requested overall rate of return: 5.95%
Requested revenue requirement: $225 million
Requested residential class rate increase: 8.8%
Time period: Jan. 1 – Dec. 31, 2022 (test year is 2019)
Events:
In December 2021, the MPSC released an order in this rate case that cut Consumers Energy’s rate request substantially. Read this blog post CUB wrote at the time for more details. In March 2022, the MPSC made an adjustment to their previous order and agreed with Consumers Energy’s petition that there were some errors in the initial order. Correcting that order added $4.6 million in rate increases above the $27.1 million approved in December 2021.