by Jason Hayes Michigan’s big utilities, including DTE Energy, claim that their summer peak-rate electricity pricing plans are designed to “reduce energy use.” But a recent Stanford University study appears to show that the…

Poorer customers suffer "greater discomfort indoors," Detroit News reports, as summer A/C costs approach California levels. by James David Dickson When families cook and eat dinner this June in an air-conditioned home, they will…

Michigan residents pay outsized rates for some of the least reliable electric service in the country. by Jason Hayes The February ice storm that struck the state of Michigan took out the electric utility services of as many…

After ice storms and thundersnow cause mass outages, DTE must admit: Burying power lines underground is the answer By James David Dickenson DTE will never trim enough trees to avoid mass power outages in Southeast Michigan. Every…

by P.D. Lesko As of Feb. 28, DTE's outage map showed that 5.24 percent of its customers in Washtenaw County--some 8,836 customers--are still without power as a result of a record-breaking Feb. 22 ice storm that knocked out power to over…

Note: Updated on Feb. 24 with a statement from City Administrator Milton Dohoney. by P.D. Lesko According to an email Ann Arbor Council member Lisa Disch (D-Ward 1) sent Feb. 23, two-third of Ann Arbor residents were without power…

DTE Energy, electricity supplier to 40% of Michigan, will start charging a peak-hour rate in March. “The residential rate is being changed to a variable Time of Day rate as a way to smooth out peaks in demand,” DTE says on its website. …

Slave labor and dirty environmental practices make green energy far from clean by Jaime Hope, MCC Green energy and climate activists say they support social and environmental justice. But the products they advocate are not compatible…

by P.D. Lesko Ann Arbor for Public Power appears to be a group of ecologically-minded people sick to death of DTE's "dirty," high-priced services and outage-a-palloozas in Ann Arbor. They want Ann Arbor to replace DTE with a "clean,"…

by Andy Balaskovitz Michigan Energy News—A MICHIGAN lawmaker wants to expand the state’s definition of renewable energy to include more fuel made from municipal and industrial solid waste. State Rep. Aric Nesbitt, a Republican who…