You can stay up-to-date on restoration progress with the Consumers Energy Outage Map. Communities are encouraged to watch for downed wires and crews working along the roads.

Public Interest Changes coming after audit exposes why Consumers, DTE have major outage problems Updated: Jun. 14, 2025, 2:10 p.m. | Published: Jun. 13, 2025, 12:05 p.m.

Consumers Energy had sought an overall 8.2% rate hike. In response, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel argued that it should be no more than 1.8%. Michigan law states that utility companies can ...

For more than a year, independent auditors looked under the hood of Michigan’s two largest utilities, DTE Energy and Consumers Energy, plagued by power outages residents and regulators alike ...

Consumers Energy is asking everyone to be alert to crews working along roads and to slow down. People should also stay at least 25 feet away from downed power lines.

However the Canada-U.S. tariff fight shakes out, it’s worth considering how new electricity tariffs could impact businesses, consumers, and energy companies.

Construction is seen at an Amazon Web Services data center on Aug. 22, 2024, in Boardman, Oregon. Utilities are charging consumers more to fund energy deals with tech giants, shifting data center ...