power outages

On Thursday, the Michigan Public Service Commission approved raising the bill credit to $42 per day for customers who endure prolonged or frequent power outages.

First, trans advocates plan to protest Michigan Medicine's decision to drop gender-affirming care for youth. Then, a new report found Michigan's utilities are the worst in the nation when it comes to restoring electricity. Also, advice on moving from The Best Advice Show and how to start a micro-garden.

Michigan utilities' average time to restore power to customers after outages was worst among all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2023, according to the Citizens Utility Board of Michigan.

Budget woes hit the Detroit Downriver suburb of Ecorse, following the cougars of Michigan, upgrading the state's power grid and supply and updates on the damage caused by ice storms in the Upper Peninsula.

We're using more power, some of the electric grid is a century old, and severe storms caused by climate change are battering the distribution system, all while trying to make the transition to renewable power and clean energy.

The governor also expanded a state of emergency declaration to add Alcona and Antrim counties as thousands are still without power.

The report examined shutoff data for six U.S. utilities, including DTE. It found that in 2024, the company shut off power to delinquent customers more than 150,000 times.

Today, DTE’s track record under the microscope, with a rate hike request under consideration by the state.We’ll talk to a journalist who reviewed all the documents related to the request. Also, writer Erin Craig, whose fantasy novels evoke new worlds in luminous, cinematic detail. Her latest book, "The Thirteenth Child," features a personification of death as a deeply fallible immortal.

An independent audit confirmed other reports finding that DTE Energy and Consumers Energy have worse-than-average storm outage response track records.

Consumers Energy and DTE Energy reported about 350,000 outages Tuesday evening after a line of thunderstorms swept through the Lower Peninsula.