Showing posts with label Consumers Energy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Consumers Energy. Show all posts
Friday, May 30, 2025

The customers, naturally

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 After Trump order, who will pay to keep Michigan coal plant on life support?  ... While the details still remain unclear, utility customers...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

The Trump Energy Department's Chris Wright saves 1,450 megawatts of electric generating capacity by stopping closure of Michigan coal plant operated by Consumers Energy

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... The plant was originally set to close on May 31, which would have been 15 years before its lifespan was scheduled to end. More . The gre...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

The gas and electric utility Consumers Energy here in Michigan is price gouging under Green Energy Joe, yours probably is too

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Compared to November 2020, my new budget plan payment for combined natural gas and electric for the coming winter will be 42% higher than it...
Monday, June 12, 2023

My local utility has repriced my fixed monthly payment for natural gas and electricity for the next year

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 The new price is down 30% from last year's horrendous price. The monthly payment will now resemble the high end of normal I experienced...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Michigan power outage update: Day 5

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 Over 100k still out in DTE service area in the east, 28k in the Consumers Energy service area in the south. Pretty shocking multi-day outag...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

Michigan power outage update

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 Consumers Energy outages: ~36k still affected (~90k restored overnight). DTE outages: ~279k still affected (~65k restored overnight). This ...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

California has power outages because it is insane and has weather, Michigan has power outages because it has weather and is insane

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 127k of the current Michigan outages belong to Consumers Energy, 344k to DTE in the Detroit area. Peak outages for Consumers Energy were ~2...
Friday, February 24, 2023

Power outage due to ice storm just gets worse for Consumers Energy customers in Michigan, so they run PR ads on YouTube while it's happening

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 Earlier in the day there were 137k without power. Tonight there are 139k.  I wouldn't have thought about it again today but for the You...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Two days after the storm blew threw Michigan is still #1 for power outages in the US this afternoon

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187k are affected in the service area of DTE energy on the east side of the state right now, and 37k are affected in the Consumers Energy se...
Friday, May 27, 2022

Gee what a coincidence: Natural gas inventories in the Lower 48 are down 17.6% year over year and my utility just raised my monthly budget plan payment for the next year by 18%

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Sunday, December 12, 2021

Tornadoes cream Kentucky and nearby states, but Michigan ends up with the most power outages: Thanks Consumers Energy and DTE

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Thursday, August 19, 2021

Day Nine: Over 1k still without electricity in Michigan from Consumers Energy

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Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Day Eight: 3k still without power in Michigan from the electric utility Consumers Energy

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  They've trotted out the CEO of the company in radio ads the last two days to thank everyone for their patience. No one apologizes anym...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Day Seven: 10k in Michigan still without power from Consumers Energy

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Monday, August 16, 2021

Day Six: 26k still without power from Consumers Energy in Michigan

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 Way to go, Brownie.
Sunday, August 15, 2021

DAY FIVE: 50,000+ still without power from Consumers Energy across Michigan

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Saturday, August 14, 2021

My incompetent Michigan utility Consumers Energy can't deliver electricity for four days but thinks free ice cream will substitute for doing its job

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How about not hectoring me day in and day out about conserving energy? How about not retiring generating capacity and having to buy power fr...

Michigan is increasingly like a third world shit-hole: Day four without electrical power from Consumers Energy, over 81k still affected

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My electric power went out Tuesday night at about 11pm. It is still out. Over 81,000 customers, just of Consumers Energy, remain without pow...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

LOL, Michigan's rapacious utility Consumers Energy delays roll-out of new Summer Peak Rate program due to COVID-19

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  Due to COVID-19, Peak Pricing has Been Delayed Until 2021: Given the economic challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, we a...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019

New summer "Time of Use" rate coming for millions of Michigan customers of Consumers Energy in 2020 between 2pm and 7pm Monday through Friday: Penalty electricity rate rises 13.7% over summer 2019 penalty rate

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The smart meter installation roll-out everywhere in recent years now affords the utility the ability to measure usage of each customer fo...