Michigan utilities shut off power for customers struggling to pay their bills at a higher rate on average than neighboring Midwestern states in 2024, according to a first-of-its-kind national survey.

A nonprofit representing residential power customers is appealing a recent Consumers Energy electric rate hike, arguing state ...

A chunk of most utility bills goes to shareholder profits. Critics argue power and gas companies are overcharging customers ...

A pair of Democrats in the Michigan Legislature have proposed that the state’s top utility regulators should be elected instead of appointed by the governor. “The goal of the proposal is to give ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Inflation energy rate caps, strengthening consumer advocacy and banning non-public meetings are all new policies under a proposed utility commission reform package from ...

Consumers Energy received approval for yet another rate hike on its customers from the Michigan Public Service Commission on Friday, which will also allow the company to collect an additional $276.6 ...

Michigan’s utilities have struggled mightily to keep the lights on, dragging the state near the bottom of the nation for power outages for years. That is starting to change. Over the past six years of ...

(TNS) — Consumers Energy, Michigan’s second largest electric utility, has a newly modified electric rate in place that will allow it to serve power-hungry data centers undergirding artificial ...

The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) has encouraged Michigan’s rate-regulated electric, natural gas, and steam utilities to continue to pursue federal funding and other support for utility ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — It's the Michigan Public Service Commission that regulates the rates Michiganders may pay for utilities like gas and electricity. And that Commission has been the subject of ...