Michigan Public Service Commission

Mar. 29, 2024 PLYMOUTH VOICE. Plymouth Michigan News   OPINION   After years of neglect and power outages, too numerous to count, often attributed to tree-trimming and not the infrastructure, DTE Energy unabashedly filed another rate increase request-four months after the last one was approved. This time claiming the funds

Jan. 6, 2024  PLYMOUTH VOICE. Plymouth Michigan News   Recently enacted Michigan climate change legislation now gives state regulators, rather than local officials, the power to approve zoning for certain wind and solar projects over local objections. According to Bridge Michigan, critics and opponents of the new laws, farmers and

Dec. 9, 2023  PLYMOUTH VOICE. Plymouth Mi   OPINION   Does the MPSC truly protect energy consumers? A ceremony last week in Lansing celebrated Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s approval of seven proposed green energy bills that immediately triggered a $368 million electric rate increase for DTE Energy customers, requested by the

Dec. 5, 2023  PLYMOUTH VOICE. Plymouth Michigan News   Plymouth residents can expect to pay premium prices for more blackouts and intermittent service   By:  Don Howard This week right after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed three proposed green energy bills, the strictest energy mandate in the nation-forcing transition from fossil

Apr. 2, 2023  PLYMOUTH VOICE. Plymouth Michigan News   The reliable energy charade continues   At the same time as Michigan lawmakers are scrambling to increase accountability for the state’s poor performing utilities following the lasting widespread power outages that crippled over 700,000 customers in recent weeks the Michigan Public

Nov. 2, 2021  PLYMOUTH VOICE. Plymouth Michigan News   OPINION “All those millions of dollars could be used instead to meet other critical needs”   In their latest monthly Customer Connections newsletter DTE Energy is touting the on-going construction of its newest $300 million wind park in mid-Michigan, known as

Sep. 2, 2021  PLYMOUTH VOICE. Plymouth Michigan News   OPINION Five years ago, at an open house at the Hilton Garden Inn DTE Energy officials attempted to quell hundreds of service complaints from angry customers in the Plymouth community. Two months prior, a massive explosion and fire rocked Plymouth’s Old

Jun. 17, 2021  PLYMOUTH VOICE. Plymouth Michigan News   OPINION   Ontario’s disastrous green energy plan that has created financial hardship for province ratepayers for years is coming to Michigan. As of June 1, Consumers Energy finalized the rollout of their new summer peak rate, which increases electricity rates by

Aug. 6, 2019  PLYMOUTH VOICE.   DTE Energy is again in the spotlight for the frequency and duration of blackouts on its aging broken system-a fact mindful to the people of Plymouth and Plymouth Township who have suffered more than their share of power outages in the past two years.

Dec. 14, 2018  PLYMOUTH VOICE. Plymouth Michigan News   “In my own district, the City of Plymouth has been especially plagued with power outages, even after steps to address the issue…”   In what is likely a final statement before he leaves office at the end of the year, State