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Nessel helps bring $3M in donations to organizations that provide energy assistance for utility customers

The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) last Thursday and late last month approved two settlements that include donations from both DTE Gas and Consumers Energy to several organizations that provide energy assistance for utility customers who struggle to pay their bills, an agreement Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office helped reach.

In the order released last Thursday, the MPSC approved a settlement reducing Consumers Energy Gas Co.’s $245 million rate increase request by over $100 million, along with a moratorium on any new increase until fall 2022, a $1 million donation to The Heat and Warmth Fund (THAW) and an additional $1 million going to nonprofits that provide energy assistance to customers in the utility’s service territory.

 

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