Executive Order Puts Oldest Polluting Coal Plants Back in Action Until May 2025, utility executives like those at Consumers Energy in Michigan operated in the world of orderly oversight of electricity generation. In coordination with MISO, the regional transmission agency, and the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC), Consumers Energy decided when to build new power plants to meet energy demand. When plants grew old and too costly to operate, as happened with the coal-fired J.H.

The Trump administration ordered Michigan to keep a 63-year-old coal plant running — costing ratepayers $615K a day. It's the first time the feds have ever done this unprompted.

#CoalPlants #WaterandEnergy #Trump #EmergencyOrder #Michigan #Pollution #ConsumersEnergy #Environment #WaterNews

Consumers seeks to delay millions in flood control upgrades as it pursues dam sales Consumers Energy is looking to delay hundreds of millions of dollars in planned safety upgrades at the largest dam in Michigan while it seeks approval of a hotly-debated plan to sell the facility and 12 others. In a filing March 16, the company asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for permission to put off a long-planned $350 million replacement of the spillway at Hardy Dam on the Muskegon River.

A 95-year-old Michigan dam needs a $350M safety upgrade — but the utility wants to delay it while selling to private equity. Tens of thousands live in the flood zone. Who's responsible if something goes wrong?

#ConsumersEnergy #WaterNews #GreatLakes #WaterandEnergy #Dams #HardyDam #Flooding

Consumers Warns Michigan: Dams Could be Torn Down Unless Utility Sells Them This story is part of a Great Lakes News Collaborative series called Shockwave: Rising energy demand and the future of the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes region is in the midst of a seismic energy shakeup, from skyrocketing data center demand and a nuclear energy boom, to expanding renewables and electrification. In 2026, the Great Lakes News Collaborative will explore how shifting supply and demand affect the region and its waters.

Consumers Energy is giving regulators an ultimatum: approve its plan to sell 13 hydropower dams to a private equity firm or face their decommissioning. State officials warn the deal could leave ratepayers exposed and Michigan rivers at risk.

#WaterNews #GreatLakes #ConsumersEnergy #HydropowerDam

Find a petition near you and sign the Money Out of Politics Petition! You can sign up at mobilize.us/VNP

#VNP #VotersNotPoliticians #Politicians #Politics #Money #DTE #BCBSM #UnitedHealthcare #ConsumersEnergy #Michigan

Join us today for our Drive and Sign Event in Waterford, and tell DTE, Consumers Energy, Blue Cross Blue Shield, UnitedHealthcare, and more that Voters are the ones in control in Michigan!

#VotersNotPoliticians #VNP #DTE #ConsumersEnergy #BCBSM #UnitedHealthcare #MMOP #MoneyOutOfPolitics #Michigan

Stop the Endless Gas Rate Hikes in Michigan Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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Stop #consumersenergy from imposing another rate hike!

Consumers Energy to Permanently Close Michigan Power Plant by 2025 Consumers Energy has announced plans to permanently close the J.H. Campbell Generating Complex in western Michigan by 2025, following an unexpected extension of operation due to Trump-era emergency directives intended to ensure grid reliability. The utility estimates it has incurred substantial financial losses, totaling approximately $80 million over four months, and faces ongoing high-cost operations if the emergency orders remain in place, casting doubt on its long-term financial sustainability.

Consumers Energy to Permanently Close Michigan Power Plant by 2025 #MISO #MichiganPowerPlant #ConsumersEnergy #GridReliability #TrumpAdministration #UtilityCompany

DTNsights | Ep. 15: Powering Through Extreme Weather, Digital Tools Leveraged to Respond to Outages This DTNsights conversation offers a behind-the-scenes look at how utility companies are working to keep communities powered, even in the face of extreme wea...

Don't miss this #DTNsights w/ #ConsumersEnergy's Eric Wojciechowski. He & Renny Vandewege talk about how #utilities leverage #AI & digital tools to predict & respond to outages, keeping communities powered in #ExtremeWeather. Listen now: dtn.link/6lkq24 

#OutageManagement #PowerOutage

STANDARD THREE-BEDROOM HOME MID-MICHIGAN NATURAL GAS/ELECTRIC TOTAL BILL FOR 2 MONTHS = $880.06 Photograph of utility bill totaling $880.06 for two months in 2021: THAT SAYS: Questions: Visit CosumersEnergy.com Call us: 800-477-5050 AND IF NOT PAID ALL GAS AND POWER IS SHUT OFF! EVEN IF TEMP IS BELOW ZERO. QUESTIONS?? HELL YES I HAVE QUESTIONS!! FOR EXAMPLE, WHY IS MY UTILITY BILL SO FREAKIN’ HIGH?? "Utility Bill = Highway Robbery" #ConsumersEnergy #electricANDgas #TAPS #TheAbsolutePowerSyndrome #digitalPhotographybyneileclement Photo & Contents © 2021 Neil E Clement, All Rights Reserved FOUR YEARS LATER AND THE BILLS JUST KEEP GOING UP!

"Utility Bill = Highway Robbery" #ConsumersEnergy #electricANDgas #TAPS #TheAbsolutePowerSyndrome #digitalPhotographybyneileclement
Photo & Contents © 2021 Neil E Clement, All Rights Reserved
FOUR YEARS LATER AND THE BILLS JUST KEEP GOING UP!

96F out. 76F in.

I'd put the AC on high but #ConsumersEnergy charges me more because I'm on a social security check.

The second-largest utility in #Michigan is asking for a $436 million rate hike.

They say it’s about reliability.

But watchdogs say there’s no evidence their spending actually improves service.

So where’s the money going?

You already know the answer.

#gasbillrelief #energy #ConsumersEnergy

State legislators from both parties say Michigan’s power grid still isn’t dependable, especially during storms and extreme weather.

But here’s the kicker: The state’s biggest utility, #ConsumersEnergy, has raised #electricity rates by over $800 million in the past decade.

Fire at Bay County power plant won't cause customer power loss, Consumers Energy says. A fire involving an oil spill at a Consumer Energy power plant Monday afternoon will not result in loss of power for customers, the company said. A fire stemming from an electric transformer started Monday afternoon at the Karn Generating Station, near…

A fire involving an oil spill at a Consumer Energy power plant Monday afternoon will not result in loss of power for customers, the company said.


A fire stemming from an electric transformer started Monday afternoon at the Karn Generating Station, near Bay… #PowerPlant #ConsumersEnergy #BayCounty