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Attorney General Dana Nessel is asking the Michigan Public Service Commission to reconsider a set of rules for large-scale Consumers Energy electricity customers, including data centers.

The Michigan Public Service Commission approved a 8.1% rate hike for CMS natural gas customers. The increase in monthly bills will begin in November.

Consumers Energy plans to sell its 13 hydroelectric dams to a Maryland-based company — but Consumers would still buy power from the dams.

Michigan House Republicans are looking to do away with the state’s clean energy standards.Their new energy plan would get rid of an overhaul passed in 2023, meant to push the state away from fossil fuels by the end of the next decade. It would also scale back some changes made in 2016 to limit energy waste.

This is the first article in our “Shockwave” project, a series of reports that will investigate the rapid evolution of the energy landscape in the Great Lakes region and the consequences the new era will have for one of the world’s largest reserves of fresh water. Produced by the five partners of the Great Lakes News Collaborative — Bridge Michigan, Circle of Blue, Great Lakes Now, Michigan Public and The Narwhal — Shockwave will document the depth and breadth of the region’s energy transformation and its influence on water use and pollution.

On Monday Cuba was plunged into an island-wide blackout affecting 11 million people after a "complete disconnection" of its electrical system, officials said, amid a worsening fuel shortage.

An Environmental Protection Agency plan to eliminate its Energy Star offices would end a decades-old program that gave consumers a choice to buy environmentally friendly electronics and save money on bills, consumer and environmental groups said.

Consumers Energy says it is continuing negotiations for potentially selling its 13 hydroelectric dams in Michigan.

Consumers Energy, which just began receiving $150 million from its last effort to raise rates, filed the largest rate hike request in about 20 years, for $436 million.

The bills would tighten regulations on products containing more than 1.75 milligrams of THC, the primary psychoactive in marijuana.