MI Attorney General Dana Nessel filed a Motion to Intervene and Protest at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission seeking to protect Michigan customers from unnecessary costs stemming from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) order forcing Consumers Energy to continue to operate its J.H. Campbell coal plant in West Olive that was scheduled to retire last month. The filing comes in response to Consumers Energy’s request that the costs of complying with the DOE’s emergency order should be distributed across the majority of the 15-state region overseen by the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, which monitors and facilitates the sharing of energy between the states. “This unprecedented order of the Department of Energy arbitrarily shifts potentially enormous costs onto customers for no real benefit. As a result, my office is challenging DOE’s unlawful emergency order while simultaneously protecting customers from paying for it.” – AG Nessel