MI Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed a notice of intervention in Consumers Energy Company’s latest electric rate case (U-21870), the full application for which was filed today before the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC). This follows Consumers’ filed announcement of their intention to hike electric rates made in a March filing before the MPSC a mere seven days after their latest electric rate hike was approved. Consumers Energy is seeking an annual rate hike of approximately $436 million which, if approved, would take effect in May 2026. “Before Consumers Energy, or anyone else for that matter, can even begin to measure any affordability or reliability improvements from their last rate hike, the company is back in business asking to bill their customers an additional $400 million annually. In a troubling continuation of the patterns we see before the MPSC from both Consumers Energy and DTE, this is at least among the largest rate hikes Consumers has ever requested, if not the largest itself. When my office alerted the public to Consumers’ announcement of this intended rate hike two months ago, the utility tried to tell their ratepayers we were wrong on the facts or misleading the people of this state. Instead, they’ve done exactly what we knew they would, exactly as their filing indicated in March. My office will thoroughly scrutinize this request and will not be deterred in our fight to protect Michigan ratepayers from corporate greed and endless, increasing rate hikes.” – AG Nessel